{"id":1120426,"date":"2022-06-13T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/thomas-partey-makes-u-turn-on-name-change\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:15:59","slug":"thomas-partey-makes-u-turn-on-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/thomas-partey-makes-u-turn-on-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey Makes U-turn On Name Change |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana and Arsenal midfielder\u00a0Thomas Partey\u00a0has made a U-turn by claiming he has changed his name from the initial Muslim name Yakubu to Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old dominated the local and international media after it was reported that he has changed his name after marrying his Moroccan girlfriend Sara Bella.<\/p>\n<p>Partey in the video said he changed his name to Yakubu following his recent marriage to Moroccan Sara Bella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a girl I love, I know my side chicks will leave me but it&#8217;s no problem,&#8221; he joked in an Instagram video posted by Ghanaian journalist Nana Aba Anamoah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up with Muslims so at the end of the day, it&#8217;s the same thing. I&#8217;m already married and my Muslim name is Yakubu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in a post reacting to the reports, Partey posted: &#8220;Eei chale I was enjoying it but now am back to Thomas again ????????&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eei chale I was enjoying it but now am back to Thomas again \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 https:\/\/t.co\/efNntBFNIF<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas Teye Partey (@Thomaspartey22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thomaspartey22\/status\/1534956298541928449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana and Arsenal midfielder\u00a0Thomas Partey\u00a0has made a U-turn by claiming he has changed his name from the initial Muslim name Yakubu to Thomas. The 29-year-old dominated the local and international media after it was reported that he has changed his name after marrying his Moroccan girlfriend Sara Bella. Partey in the video said he changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[905,1361,2638,3553],"class_list":["post-1120426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","tag-change","tag-partey","tag-thomas","tag-uturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120426","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=1120426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}