{"id":186223,"date":"2024-12-10T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mahama-secures-landslide-victory-bawumia-concedes-defeat-ec-to-declare-mahama-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T00:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:25:39","slug":"ghana-mahama-secures-landslide-victory-bawumia-concedes-defeat-ec-to-declare-mahama-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mahama-secures-landslide-victory-bawumia-concedes-defeat-ec-to-declare-mahama-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Mahama Secures Landslide Victory &#8211; Bawumia Concedes Defeat &#8211; EC to Declare Mahama President-Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says Ghana is more important than any individual politician in the country, as he concedes defeat to former President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">To this end he said it was important that the interest of the country was placed ahead of the interest of any individual irrespective of the electoral outcomes in any elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;I have just called his Excellency John Dramani Mahama to congratulate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412090435.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>The Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says Ghana is more important than any individual politician in the country, as he concedes defeat to former President John Dramani Mahama. To this end he said it was important that the interest of the country was placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186224,"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":[258,256,11191,19773,12877,6531,4508,4509,11322,7780,257,6440,10429,254,10099],"class_list":["post-186223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bawumia","tag-concedes","tag-declare","tag-defeat","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-landslide","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-presidentelect","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victory"],"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\/186223","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=186223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}