{"id":273723,"date":"2011-01-13T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46795"},"modified":"2011-01-13T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:30:52","slug":"musiga-president-confirms-she-will-not-go-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/13\/musiga-president-confirms-she-will-not-go-for-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSIGA president confirms she will not go for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_46796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46796\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-46796\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/13\/musiga-president-confirms-she-will-not-go-for-re-election\/diana-hopson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46796\" title=\"Diana Hopson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Diana-Hopson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Diana Hopson, MUSIGA president<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMusician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) president, Diana Hopeson, has confirmed  media speculations that she will not stand for re-election for a second  term in office as MUSIGA president.<br \/>\nDiana who is ending her  four-year tenure in office later this year said she thinks her term is  enough adding she is satisfied with what she achieved during her reign.<br \/>\nSpeaking to Lexis Bill on <strong>Day Break Hitz<\/strong> on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong> Wednesday she said, \u201cI think, for me, four years is enough because the  things I wanted to do, I have been able to do and I can\u2019t do everything,  and I am happy with what I have been able to do.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course there is pressure but that is a good challenge and if you are able to stand to it, it&#8217;s good,\u201d she added.<br \/>\nDiana  has been absent from the music scene for some time now, this, she  blamed on the busy schedules that comes with the presidency adding its  greatly affected her career.<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t do the two. [After  four-years in active leadership], I think it\u2019s long enough for me to  move on and go back to what I really like. The sacrifices are just too  much and there is a limit that one can go\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nDiana conceded that the association has been plagued with challenges of  unity and elections, but they are natural phenomena.<br \/>\n\u201cInitially  during the election time, there were a lot of competitors and it  brought a lot of [issues]\u2026at the end of the day, elections are organized  just to choose a leader and I believe that once a leader is chosen,  everybody should come together to help make a better organization or  association or institutions for all. That was what I looked forward to,\u201d  she said.<br \/>\nShe noted, \u201cNow we are all together, there are no  divisions at all. Everybody is ready to build. We have seen that nobody  will do it for us so all the musicians have come together\u2026We all want to  see a vibrant music industry.\u201d<br \/>\nMUSIGA will be going to the poll in August to elect a new president.<br \/>\nStory by Ernest Dela Aglanu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) president, Diana Hopeson, has confirmed media speculations that she will not stand for re-election for a second term in office as MUSIGA president. 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