{"id":770890,"date":"2019-12-24T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/24\/get-to-the-grassroots-because-being-just-popular-cant-win-you-votes-social-media-users-advise-john-dumelo\/"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:41:15","slug":"get-to-the-grassroots-because-being-just-popular-cant-win-you-votes-social-media-users-advise-john-dumelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/24\/get-to-the-grassroots-because-being-just-popular-cant-win-you-votes-social-media-users-advise-john-dumelo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Get To The Grassroots Because Being Just Popular Can&#8217;t Win You Votes&#8217; \u2013 Social Media Users Advise John Dumelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular Ghanaian actor cum politician, John Dumelo has been recently advised by some social media users on Twitter to get in touch with the people because that\u2019s the only way he can win votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their view, he should learn from the story of Hon. Aponkye who had all the media hype but lost the District Level elections to the shock of many who thought he was set to win the polls hands down<\/p>\n<p>They indicated that it is high time John Dumelo gets to the grassroots and gets to know the people and their needs rather than riding on his popularity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Read some of the posts below; <\/p>\n<p>\u201c@johndumelo1 if you need genuine view abt gh voters, hope u know wer to go to #HonAponkye\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEgo over you #2020Elections \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@johndumelo1 has never in his submissions stated that election is won on twitter. He has rather be giving reasons why he isn\u2019t getting complacent over the positive response he gets here. 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