{"id":1230448,"date":"2022-10-21T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/presidency-downplays-booing-of-akufo-addo-during-ashanti-region-tour\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:51:35","slug":"presidency-downplays-booing-of-akufo-addo-during-ashanti-region-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/presidency-downplays-booing-of-akufo-addo-during-ashanti-region-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency downplays booing of Akufo-Addo during Ashanti Region tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Presidency has downplayed reports that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was booed on his recent tour of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on social media showed the president\u2019s convoy booed by some onlookers at the Kejetia market when he had gone to inspect ongoing works at the market.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, Eugene Arhin, said he was not aware of the jeers from the onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t hear anything. Even the president himself [didn\u2019t hear anything too]. Some of us were a little bit taken aback [when we saw that in the media],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Arhin further referenced the Global Citizen Festival concert last month, when the President was also booed while delivering a speech during the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just like, probably, what happened during the Global Citizen festival. A group of people standing somewhere doing their own thing, and they record\u2026 but meanwhile, once you are in front there, you literally don\u2019t hear anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"09kdcJ6DQ1g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President tours Ashanti Region: Akufo-Addo defends IMF u-turn; throws support behind Ofori-Atta\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09kdcJ6DQ1g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has downplayed reports that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was booed on his recent tour of the Ashanti Region. Videos on social media showed the president\u2019s convoy booed by some onlookers at the Kejetia market when he had gone to inspect ongoing works at the market. But speaking to Citi News, the Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230448","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\/1230448","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=1230448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}