{"id":450133,"date":"2017-12-26T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/26\/mahama-afari-gyan-in-liberia-ahead-of-tuesdays-runoff\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:08:00","slug":"mahama-afari-gyan-in-liberia-ahead-of-tuesdays-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/26\/mahama-afari-gyan-in-liberia-ahead-of-tuesdays-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama, Afari Gyan in Liberia ahead of Tuesday\u2019s runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Tuesday, 26 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-26<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/77160866.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama Liberia RunOff\" title=\"Mahama Liberia RunOff\" width=\"295\" height=\"175\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President Mahama was at the first round of polls held on 10 October.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514268480_588_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Liberia for Tuesday\u2019s presidential run-off between Vice President Joseph Boakai and former football star George Oppon Weah.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s former leader is leading the Observer Mission Group of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).<\/p>\n<p>He was at the first round of polls held on 10 October.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he held a briefing session with the 25-man group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe briefing included a presentation by the ECOWAS Technical Support Team that was deployed to assist the Liberian National Election Commission evaluate their voter register and technical capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Technical Support Team was headed by former Electoral Commissioner of Ghana Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Mr Mahama\u2019s office on Monday said he has held separate meetings with Vice President Boakai, who leads the Unity Party, and Mr Weah, who leads the Coalition of Democratic Change.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s ex-president reminded Liberians that the sanctity of the polls, and the stability of the country after the elections, will depend on them and not ECOWAS, the Observers or the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weah beat 19 other candidates to win the first round but could not get a constitutional 50 per cent plus one vote.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 38 updated by: 38 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Tuesday, 26 December 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-12-26 Former President Mahama was at the first round of polls held on 10 October. Former President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Liberia for Tuesday\u2019s presidential run-off between Vice President Joseph Boakai and former football star George Oppon Weah. Ghana\u2019s former leader is leading the Observer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama, Afari Gyan in Liberia ahead of Tuesday\u2019s runoff - 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\/2017\/12\/26\/mahama-afari-gyan-in-liberia-ahead-of-tuesdays-runoff\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mahama, Afari Gyan in Liberia ahead of Tuesday\u2019s runoff - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Politics of Tuesday, 26 December 2017 Source: 3news.com 2017-12-26 Former President Mahama was at the first round of polls held on 10 October. 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