{"id":186144,"date":"2024-12-08T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-breaking-ghana-2024-ruling-partys-candidate-concedes-defeat-congratulates-oppositions-mahama\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:22:38","slug":"ghana-breaking-ghana-2024-ruling-partys-candidate-concedes-defeat-congratulates-oppositions-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-breaking-ghana-2024-ruling-partys-candidate-concedes-defeat-congratulates-oppositions-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Breaking &#8211; Ghana 2024: Ruling Party&#8217;s Candidate Concedes Defeat, Congratulates Opposition&#8217;s Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Ghana&#8217;s presidential election was conducted nationwide on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Vice President Muhammadu Bawumia, the ruling party&#8217;s presidential candidate, has conceded defeat in Ghana&#8217;s 2024 elections and congratulated former President John Mahama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In a concession speech delivered on Sunday, Mr Bawumia, the candidate of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newpatrioticparty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Patriotic Party (NPP),<\/a><\/strong> stated that internal data from his party indicates that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has secured victory in both the presidential and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412080025.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>Ghana&#8217;s presidential election was conducted nationwide on Saturday. Vice President Muhammadu Bawumia, the ruling party&#8217;s presidential candidate, has conceded defeat in Ghana&#8217;s 2024 elections and congratulated former President John Mahama. In a concession speech delivered on Sunday, Mr Bawumia, the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), stated that internal data from his party indicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186145,"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":[258,256,4286,7997,19773,6439,6531,4508,4509,7780,257,13899,10803,7870,254],"class_list":["post-186144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaking","tag-candidate","tag-concedes","tag-congratulates","tag-defeat","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-oppositions","tag-partys","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/186144","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=186144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}