{"id":1210520,"date":"2022-09-25T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/25\/akufo-addo-shammed-on-social-media-after-booing-incident-at-global-citizen-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T08:06:56","slug":"akufo-addo-shammed-on-social-media-after-booing-incident-at-global-citizen-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/25\/akufo-addo-shammed-on-social-media-after-booing-incident-at-global-citizen-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo shammed on social media after booing incident at Global Citizen festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was booed by a section of the crowd that attended a global entertainment event held at the Black Star Square in Accra on Saturday, September 24, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of patrons were at the venue to witness the Global Citizen festival which had a number of local and international artistes performing.<\/p>\n<p>As host of the event, the president was called upon to give his remarks, which happened to be a prepared speech that lasted over six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The booing happened when he started his speech saying: \u201cThe whole world is in Ghana today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What started initially as people showing their disapproval of his presence on the stage, turned into loud clapping and chanting of the words: \u201caway, away\u2026,\u201d the president, however, stayed the course and delivered his full speech.<\/p>\n<p>As if that was not enough, people on social media latched on to the development to mock the president.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch how the booing started:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/zca7CZAW-eqk5XVg5.html\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the full speech of President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NAkufoAddo<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GlobalCitizenFestival?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GlobalCitizenFestival<\/a> in Accra <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/paR9guCfiS\">pic.twitter.com\/paR9guCfiS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Urban Lifestyle Radio\ud83d\udcfb (@3fm927) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3fm927\/status\/1573825956845944834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fi\" dir=\"ltr\">Shwe3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NAkufoAddo<\/a> massa omuu huru wo\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZvfe4eoO8\">pic.twitter.com\/PZvfe4eoO8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santa Maria Obidi (@kobbyrolls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kobbyrolls\/status\/1573850667164356611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Akufo Addo after being booed on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GlobalCitizenFestival?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GlobalCitizenFestival<\/a>\u00a0\ufffc stage.\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VuyJcC0955\">pic.twitter.com\/VuyJcC0955<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vote John Mahama 2024 (@Onedem3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Onedem3\/status\/1573833647521759233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: Ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"daily-after-content\" id=\"daily-1868553666\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/joinwhatsapp.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"696\" height=\"162\"\/><\/div>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was booed by a section of the crowd that attended a global entertainment event held at the Black Star Square in Accra on Saturday, September 24, 2022. Thousands of patrons were at the venue to witness the Global Citizen festival which had a number of local and international artistes performing. 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