{"id":444841,"date":"2017-12-08T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/throwback-thursday-nii-lante-and-his-famous-kakai-election-dance\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:30:35","slug":"throwback-thursday-nii-lante-and-his-famous-kakai-election-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/throwback-thursday-nii-lante-and-his-famous-kakai-election-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Nii Lante and his famous &#8216;Kakai&#8217; election dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/16899203.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nii Lante   Kakai Dance\" title=\"Nii Lante   Kakai Dance\" width=\"295\" height=\"215\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nii Lante Vanderpuye danced to Shatta Wale&#8217;s &#8216;Kai Kai&#8217; at NDC final campaign last year<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512693035_375_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">It is exactly one year after Ghana went to the poll to elect a new leader in Nana Akufo-Addo. Many were the controversies at the time.<\/p>\n<p>From being in a comfortable lead to cruising to victory, the memories of the period were just so fascinating. But none of those memories come close to the famous kaikai dance by the Odododiodioo MP, Nii Lante Vanderpuye.<\/p>\n<p>You can hate him for his views on politics, even on the Black Stars and his relationship with the Football Association but you can\u2019t hate him for his dancing steps and his ability to connect with the masses. <\/p>\n<p>Any wonder why he won the Odododiodioo seat massively even when his party lost miserably at the polls?  <\/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>play videoNii Lante Vanderpuye danced to Shatta Wale&#8217;s &#8216;Kai Kai&#8217; at NDC final campaign last year It is exactly one year after Ghana went to the poll to elect a new leader in Nana Akufo-Addo. Many were the controversies at the time. From being in a comfortable lead to cruising to victory, the memories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444841","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>Throwback Thursday: Nii Lante and his famous &#039;Kakai&#039; election dance - 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\/08\/throwback-thursday-nii-lante-and-his-famous-kakai-election-dance\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Throwback Thursday: Nii Lante and his famous &#039;Kakai&#039; election dance - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"play videoNii Lante Vanderpuye danced to Shatta Wale&#8217;s &#8216;Kai Kai&#8217; at NDC final campaign last year It is exactly one year after Ghana went to the poll to elect a new leader in Nana Akufo-Addo. 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