{"id":456148,"date":"2018-01-17T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/17\/its-a-pity-bature-is-not-alive-to-criticize-me-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T18:23:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:23:49","slug":"its-a-pity-bature-is-not-alive-to-criticize-me-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/17\/its-a-pity-bature-is-not-alive-to-criticize-me-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a pity Bature is not alive to criticize me &#8211; Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Alhaji-Bature-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has said it\u2019s unfortunate that one of his fierce critics over the years, Alhaji Bature Iddrisu has passed on so early into his rule as the Leader of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he would have loved to have the former senior journalist around to serve as a check on the activities of his government to ensure that it does the right thing and improve on the living conditions of Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><em>Bature is a staunch critic and it\u2019s a pity that he\u2019s no longer here to keep me and everything we\u2019re doing on our toes. But it is God that has taken him away so we wish them all safe, mercy and rest in the Almighty,\u201d<\/em> The President said Wednesday during a media encounter at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The late Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj Newspaper Alhaji Bature was buried, Saturday, January 6, 2018 at the Madina Cemetery in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran journalist died a fortnight ago at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he was receiving treatment after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Bature was a staunch supporter of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) but was a fierce critic of the party\u2019s founder, Ex President Jerry John Rawlings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/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>President Akufo-Addo has said it\u2019s unfortunate that one of his fierce critics over the years, Alhaji Bature Iddrisu has passed on so early into his rule as the Leader of the country. According to him, he would have loved to have the former senior journalist around to serve as a check on the activities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":456149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}