{"id":185517,"date":"2024-11-29T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-enthusiasm-anxiety-grip-takoradi-electorate-as-dec-7-polls-get-closer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:00:40","slug":"ghana-enthusiasm-anxiety-grip-takoradi-electorate-as-dec-7-polls-get-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-enthusiasm-anxiety-grip-takoradi-electorate-as-dec-7-polls-get-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Enthusiasm, Anxiety Grip Takoradi Electorate &#8230;As Dec.7 Polls Get Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Excitement, anxiety and optimism grip the electorate as parliamentary candidates in Takoradi crisscross the political turf to solicit votes with about 12 days to the December 7 general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Undoubtedly, the political temperature is high and infectious as all is set for the Electoral Commission to carry out its important task of organising the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">It would give Ghanaians another chance to elect a new President as President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo bows out of office on January 7, 2025&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411280657.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement, anxiety and optimism grip the electorate as parliamentary candidates in Takoradi crisscross the political turf to solicit votes with about 12 days to the December 7 general election. Undoubtedly, the political temperature is high and infectious as all is set for the Electoral Commission to carry out its important task of organising the polls. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[43394,258,256,11118,11363,50071,10741,36722,4508,4509,6847,257,8059,254,22476],"class_list":["post-185517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-as","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anxiety","tag-closer","tag-dec-7","tag-electorate","tag-enthusiasm","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-grip","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takoradi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}