{"id":238496,"date":"2012-12-10T22:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:38:40","slug":"2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Elections Is The Best Ever In Africa &#8211; Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/f3e0630412117_136204.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Former President Rawlings has described this year\u2019s general elections as the best ever to be held in Ghana\u2019s electoral history and in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He also commended Ghanaians who withstood the challenges that confronted the process forcing the EC to postpone the elections to a second day.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings made these comments when the AU President Yayi Bonni paid a courtesy call on him following the declaration of election results on Sunday by the Chairman of the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just saying Mr. President [Yayi Boni] that this is the most serene electoral process I have ever witnessed in this country\u201d the founder of the ruling NDC said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cit compares to none on this continent and possibly around the world. What took place here is as good as anything you would find in any part of the world and I am saying that the beauty of it is that it happened not because of any coercive thing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Yayi Boni is expected to visit Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the NPP to hold talks with him on allegations of vote fraud made by his party.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Rawlings has described this year\u2019s general elections as the best ever to be held in Ghana\u2019s electoral history and in Africa.He also commended Ghanaians who withstood the challenges that confronted the process forcing the EC to postpone the elections to a second day.Mr. Rawlings made these comments when the AU President Yayi Bonni paid a courtesy call on him following the declaration of election results on Sunday by the Chairman of the Electoral Commission.\u201cI am just saying Mr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2012 Elections Is The Best Ever In Africa - Rawlings - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"2012 Elections Is The Best Ever In Africa - Rawlings - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former President Rawlings has described this year\u2019s general elections as the best ever to be held in Ghana\u2019s electoral history and in Africa.He also commended Ghanaians who withstood the challenges that confronted the process forcing the EC to postpone the elections to a second day.Mr. Rawlings made these comments when the AU President Yayi Bonni paid a courtesy call on him following the declaration of election results on Sunday by the Chairman of the Electoral Commission.\u201cI am just saying Mr.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/f3e0630412117_136204.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/10\\\/2012-elections-is-the-best-ever-in-africa-rawlings\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"2012 Elections Is The Best Ever In Africa &#8211; 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