{"id":431985,"date":"2017-10-25T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/25\/mahama-reacts-to-damning-kwesi-botchwey-report\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:06:21","slug":"mahama-reacts-to-damning-kwesi-botchwey-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/25\/mahama-reacts-to-damning-kwesi-botchwey-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama reacts to damning Kwesi Botchwey report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/ghana-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/John-Mahama-think.jpg\" data-caption=\"John Mahama\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/John-Mahama-think.jpg.pagespeed.ce.bDhsTPc2J_.jpg\" alt=\"John Mahama\" title=\"John Mahama think\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former President John Mahama has spoken for the first time on the damning Kwesi Botchwey report which investigated why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost miserably to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>The highly guarded report has found its way in the hands of the media and is being serialized amidst claims by some NDC executives that it is fake.<\/p>\n<p>Although former president Mahama did not respond directly to aspects of the report against him and his appointees, he tweeted on Tuesday evening jabbing the media over their obsession for their newly found \u201chandbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Botchwey report allegedly described Mahama as a naked president who was deceived by his close appointees.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Below are his tweets:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It appears \u2018KB report\u2019 has been adopted by some media as the new handbook for any challenge facing GH.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/922949780069855233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the event of crisis, open any page and quote. Lol &#x1f602;&#x1f602;&#x1f602;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/922949858809581569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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>John Mahama Former President John Mahama has spoken for the first time on the damning Kwesi Botchwey report which investigated why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost miserably to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). The highly guarded report has found its way in the hands of the media and is being serialized amidst claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama reacts to damning Kwesi Botchwey report - 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\/10\/25\/mahama-reacts-to-damning-kwesi-botchwey-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mahama reacts to damning Kwesi Botchwey report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"John Mahama Former President John Mahama has spoken for the first time on the damning Kwesi Botchwey report which investigated why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost miserably to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). 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