{"id":1221254,"date":"2022-10-11T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/president-akufo-addo-must-resign-odike\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:23:15","slug":"president-akufo-addo-must-resign-odike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/president-akufo-addo-must-resign-odike\/","title":{"rendered":"President Akufo-Addo Must Resign &#8211; Odike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ad3d0d11f6634ff4a144d2baddc96fb9\" alt=\"Nullify banishment before I can come and apologise - Odike to Kumasi Traditional Council - MyJoyOnline.com\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has called for the resignation of Akufo-Addo as President of the Republic of Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">This is because of the President\u2019s failure to end illegal mining, alias Galamsay, in Ghana, according to Mr Odike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He says President Akufo-Addo has woefully lost the battle against illegal mining after putting his presidency on the line to end the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;The situation is becoming dire by the day and galamsay has fought him, Akufo-Addo&#8221;, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cHe must leave office for somebody who can do the job. He has failed the battle against galamsay, it is clear. He has lost it. He put his presidency on the line and if he is honest to the people and has conscience to protect, he must resign honourable&#8221;, he told Accra-based Joy News on Monday, October 10, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mr Odike says President Akufo-Addo is going about saying that he wants to fight galamsay yet he has failed to invite key stakeholders and experts to come help him end the menace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;Nana Addo has not extended an invitation to anybody. He claims that he can solve it that is why he put his presidency on the line. Had it been that he has extended an invitation to all of us (Stakeholders, experts and technocrats) to come and join&#8221;, added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">&#8220;I was expecting that in the Kumasi forum, there should have been experts that can bring on board divergent ideas to deal with the matter but he brought the chiefs and the government that we are blaming that they are part of it together. How can we resolve this issue?&#8221; He quizzed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OEntertainment (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nAkwasi Addai Odike<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nOdike<br \/>\nUnited Progressive Party<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has called for the resignation of Akufo-Addo as President of the Republic of Ghana. This is because of the President\u2019s failure to end illegal mining, alias Galamsay, in Ghana, according to Mr Odike. He says President Akufo-Addo has woefully lost the battle against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[648,21814,275,2562],"class_list":["post-1221254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddo","tag-odike","tag-president","tag-resign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}