{"id":98696,"date":"2015-03-12T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=98696"},"modified":"2015-03-12T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:00:44","slug":"im-flattered-by-ec-job-but-im-too-busy-gyimah-boadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=98696","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m flattered by EC job, but I\u2019m too busy \u2013 Gyimah-Boadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Executive Director of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, he will decline an offer to replace outgoing Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;4uVBVlg0bLNEWXUXZrtLrdxIgePc60Q8&#8243;]Professor Gyimah-Boadi\u2019s name has come up amongst others who are likely to replace Dr Afari Gyan as he <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=ynnlcJbJeo:98696:2534:13::yxkv3R0V9gLHrYauWJBE8WacA:only_previous:550137ad8f1dc1-06192917\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>prepares for his retirement later in 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to <strong>Citi News\u00a0<\/strong>about the latest development, the renowned Professor in Political Science\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201c&#8230;\u00a0I am flattered by it but I just want to put on record that I do not aspire to that position; I am not available for that position. Even in the event that it is offered, I shall turn it down,\u201d he stated emphatically.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74529\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/afari-gyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74529 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/afari-gyan.jpg\" alt=\"afari gyan\" width=\"528\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/afari-gyan.jpg 528w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/afari-gyan-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outgoing EC boss Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This he explained is because \u201cI am occupied, I have too many things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Executive Director of CDD said he currently heads Afrobarometer research projects in 35 countries hence cannot accept the offer adding that \u201cI\u2019m still doing top international governance and democracy advising [and] I am satisfied enough with what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has told Citi News, he will decline an offer to replace outgoing Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;4uVBVlg0bLNEWXUXZrtLrdxIgePc60Q8&#8243;]Professor Gyimah-Boadi\u2019s name has come up amongst others who are likely to replace Dr Afari Gyan as he prepares for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-98696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}