{"id":1212227,"date":"2022-09-28T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/ndc-dissociates-itself-from-akufo-addos-booing-says-incident-reflects-mood-of-ghanaians\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:01:15","slug":"ndc-dissociates-itself-from-akufo-addos-booing-says-incident-reflects-mood-of-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/ndc-dissociates-itself-from-akufo-addos-booing-says-incident-reflects-mood-of-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dissociated itself from the booing of President Akufo-Addo at the 2022 Global Citizen Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The party said the incident reflects the \u201cexcruciating and frustrating times Ghanaians presently find themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press released signed by the Communications Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi, NDC said it had no hand in the \u201cembarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sammy-Gyamfi-NDC.jpeg\" alt=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032068153 lazy\"  data- title=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Sammy Gyamfi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NDC is thus asking the government and the ruling New Patriotic Party to take a cue from it and work to assuage the suffering of Ghanaians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt bears reminding the ruling New Patriotic Party that the struggles of the youth are a microcosm of the daily ordeal of the Ghanaian people who must find ways to survive at a time inflation is 33.9%, with prices of goods and services skyrocketing every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youth expressed in the clearest terms, the daily struggles of the vast majority of our people who wake up every passing day with no hope of where their next meal is going to come from.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Akufo-Addo-global.jpg\" alt=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032177008 lazy\" width=\"415\" height=\"249\"  data- title=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThose young people simply gave voice to our daily struggles with unbearable prices of fuel at the pumps, high cost of living in the country,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the NDC of orchestrating the heckling of President Akufo-Addo at the said event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement, Deputy Director of Communications, Ernest Owusu Bempah Bonsu said the NDC intentionally sponsored the heckling for political scores.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/059A7351-scaled-1-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032166398 lazy\"  data- title=\"NDC dissociates itself from Akufo-Addo\u2019s booing; says incident reflects mood of Ghanaians\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Ernest Owusu Bempah, NPP\u2019s Deputy Communications Director<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This allegation the NDC has denied outrightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo who delivered that keynote address at the 2022 Global Citizen Festival was met with loud boos and hoots from spectators.<\/p>\n<p>As the crowd chanted \u201cAway!\u201d the President delivered his speech without a hitch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dissociated itself from the booing of President Akufo-Addo at the 2022 Global Citizen Festival. The party said the incident reflects the \u201cexcruciating and frustrating times Ghanaians presently find themselves.\u201d In a press released signed by the Communications Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi, NDC said it had no hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212227","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=1212227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}