{"id":37094,"date":"2018-03-10T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sekamana-rurangirwa-confirmed-ferwafa-presidency\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T13:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:20:38","slug":"sekamana-rurangirwa-confirmed-ferwafa-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sekamana-rurangirwa-confirmed-ferwafa-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekamana, Rurangirwa confirmed FERWAFA presidency contestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both contestants confirmed to compete in elections scheduled on March 31st 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The elections had taken place last year and incumbent Felicite Rwemalika run alone after the current president\u2019s Vincent de Gaule Nzamwita withdrawal. However, Rwemalika did not manage to get minimum votes as she got 13 out of 52 voters.<\/p>\n<p>Both contestants will start to campaign on March 12th until March 30th. <\/p>\n<p>Nzamwita served as FERWAFA president since 2014 and the new president will serve starting from 2018 until 2021.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24339 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/brig._gen._sekamana_wiyamamaje_avuye_mu_intare_fc-512fe.jpg\" alt=\"Rtd. Brig. Gen. Jean Damascene Sekamana\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24338 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rurangirwa_louis_ubushize_ntiyari_yemerewe_kwiyamamaza-bc1b7.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Rurangirwa \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rtd. Brig. Gen. Jean Damascene Sekamana and former referee, Louis Rurangirwa  have been confirmed by the Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA) Electoral Commission to contest for the federation\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37094"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37094"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}