{"id":94339,"date":"2020-03-09T05:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ghani-and-abdullah-take-separate-oaths-for-top-office\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T05:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:09:31","slug":"ghani-and-abdullah-take-separate-oaths-for-top-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ghani-and-abdullah-take-separate-oaths-for-top-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghani and Abdullah take separate oaths for top office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/March\/9\/A&amp;G 6.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah decided to hold contrasting oath taking ceremonies for the top office Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The oath taking ceremony for Ghani at the Arg palace &#8212; the presidency, was scheduled for early morning around 9.00 a.m. (0430GMT), but it was postponed for undeclared reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The oath taking ceremony would take place in the afternoon,&quot; the president&#39;s spokesman, Sediq Seddiqi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Abdullah had arrangements in place at Safedar palace for his oath taking as he disputed the September 2019 election results declaring Ghani as the winner. &quot;No one should have underestimated our commitment to genuine democracy &amp; our resolve to uphold rule of law. Our track record of self-denial &amp; compromise should not have given cause to anyone to take us for granted. Invalidation of all fraudulent votes is the way out!&quot; Abdullah said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Developing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah decided to hold contrasting oath taking ceremonies for the top office Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}