{"id":447979,"date":"2017-12-17T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/rawlings-and-mahama-share-laughter-handshake\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T21:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:09:23","slug":"rawlings-and-mahama-share-laughter-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/rawlings-and-mahama-share-laughter-handshake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings and Mahama share laughter, handshake"},"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\/97656890.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama Rawlings Funeral.jpeg\" title=\"Mahama Rawlings Funeral.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Presidents, John Dramani Mahama and Jerry John Rawlings exchange pleasantries<\/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\/1513544963_508_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Mahama bumped into each other at Kpando during the funeral ceremony of Daa Mercy, the late Volta Regional Women Organiser of the main opposition National Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The two former leaders shared a handshake.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rawlings was a harsh critic of Mr Mahama during the latter\u2019s tenure of office.<\/p>\n<p>He ceaselessly accused the Mahama administration of wallowing in corruption.<\/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>Former Presidents, John Dramani Mahama and Jerry John Rawlings exchange pleasantries Former presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Mahama bumped into each other at Kpando during the funeral ceremony of Daa Mercy, the late Volta Regional Women Organiser of the main opposition National Democratic Congress. The two former leaders shared a handshake. Mr Rawlings was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":447980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447979","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>Rawlings and Mahama share laughter, handshake - 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\/17\/rawlings-and-mahama-share-laughter-handshake\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rawlings and Mahama share laughter, handshake - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Presidents, John Dramani Mahama and Jerry John Rawlings exchange pleasantries Former presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Mahama bumped into each other at Kpando during the funeral ceremony of Daa Mercy, the late Volta Regional Women Organiser of the main opposition National Democratic Congress. 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