{"id":197823,"date":"2025-05-10T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-presidents-120-day-scorecard-impressive-but-ghanaians-expect-more\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:18:13","slug":"ghana-presidents-120-day-scorecard-impressive-but-ghanaians-expect-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-presidents-120-day-scorecard-impressive-but-ghanaians-expect-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President&#8217;s 120-Day Scorecard Impressive, but Ghanaians Expect More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s Wednesday address, marking his first 120 days in office, was more than a customary update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">It was a deliberate reaffirmation of a social contract between his administration and the Ghanaian people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">By opting for a 120-day milestone rather than the traditional 100-day landmark, which has come to characterise our governance system, the President subtly signalled his intention to break from political conventions, and rather focus on measurable impact over optics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090439.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>President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s Wednesday address, marking his first 120 days in office, was more than a customary update. It was a deliberate reaffirmation of a social contract between his administration and the Ghanaian people. By opting for a 120-day milestone rather than the traditional 100-day landmark, which has come to characterise our governance system, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670080:d51f5b123cde8da455197fe1c59d8252:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[51319,258,256,17712,4508,4509,7921,6839,257,7527,18425,254],"class_list":["post-197823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-120day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expect","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaians","tag-impressive","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-scorecard","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670080:d51f5b123cde8da455197fe1c59d8252:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197823","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=197823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}