{"id":1113453,"date":"2022-06-07T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/michael-blackson-reacts-to-ondo-states-massacre-prays-the-govt-does-something-about-it\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:21:11","slug":"michael-blackson-reacts-to-ondo-states-massacre-prays-the-govt-does-something-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/07\/michael-blackson-reacts-to-ondo-states-massacre-prays-the-govt-does-something-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Blackson Reacts To Ondo State&#8217;s Massacre, Prays The Gov&#8217;t Does Something About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-american-liberian-ghanaian-actor-and-comedian-michael-blackson-has-taken-to-his-twitter-page-to-pen-down-his-heartfelt-condolences-to-the-victims-of-the- recent-massacre-at-ondo-state-in-nigeria\">American-Liberian-Ghanaian actor and comedian, Michael Blackson has taken to his Twitter page to pen down his heartfelt condolences to the victims of the recent massacre at Ondo State in Nigeria.<\/h2>\n<h4>READ ALSO: \u201cUntil A Ring Is Placed On Your Finger, You\u2019re Just A Free Agent\u201d-Sam George Explains Why He Dumped His Ex For His Wife [Video]<\/h4>\n<p>On June 5, 2022, a massacre occurred at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, a small town in Ondo State, Nigeria, in which around 50 people were declared killed after unknown gunmen rushed the church auditorium and started firing at the civilians.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours earlier, videos of the terrible incident went viral on social media, showing some of the victims, including women and children, lying lifeless in cold blood after the gunman fired sporadically at them.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to this, Michael Blackson penned down a word of prayer for the victims of the massacre as he calls on the federal republic to do something about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote;<strong> I thought crazy people were only in America but seems like they are everywhere. Our prayers to Nigeria we love u. Hopefully your government will do something about this massacre smh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See the tweet below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought crazy people were only in America but seems like they are everywhere. Our prayers to Nigeria \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec we love u. Hopefully your government will do something about this massacre smh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Blackson (@MichaelBlackson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelBlackson\/status\/1534153843121995776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In other news, the member of parliament representing the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Hon. Sam Nartey George has assured the members of the National Democratic Congress that the party is capable of assuming the governmental seat in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on the Delay Show with Deloris Frimpong Manso, the controversial MP stated that he is confident that the NDC will once again assume the presidential seat but the party needs to stay vigilant in the forthcoming elections in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Sam George stated that he is a realist, hence he wouldn\u2019t say winning the elections is a done deal for the NDC because the ruling NPP government has a track record of stealing and rigging elections at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>2024 is a very likely election for the NDC to win but I\u2019m one person who is a realist, I wouldn\u2019t say it is a done deal. If the NDC is not serious at the polling stations, the NPP doesn\u2019t have any track record to break the eight\u201d, <\/strong>he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe only track record the NPP has is political stealing, electoral malfeasants, and rigging the<\/strong> <strong>elections. They have perfected the machinery of rigging since 2008 when they started trying it, they tried and succeeded in 2016 and they perfected it in 2020, if the NDC presumes they have already won, 2024 will just skip them\u201d,<\/strong> he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"c2c63a21301085b80e6825d8-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American-Liberian-Ghanaian actor and comedian, Michael Blackson has taken to his Twitter page to pen down his heartfelt condolences to the victims of the recent massacre at Ondo State in Nigeria. READ ALSO: \u201cUntil A Ring Is Placed On Your Finger, You\u2019re Just A Free Agent\u201d-Sam George Explains Why He Dumped His Ex For His Wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9810,225,16569,511,16372,4097,646,2677],"class_list":["post-1113453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-blackson","tag-govt","tag-massacre","tag-michael","tag-ondo","tag-prays","tag-reacts","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}