{"id":1265742,"date":"2022-12-15T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/mahamas-emoji-reaction-on-social-media-causes-stir\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T21:07:23","slug":"mahamas-emoji-reaction-on-social-media-causes-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/mahamas-emoji-reaction-on-social-media-causes-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama&#8217;s emoji reaction on social media causes stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-11-19-103701-696x391.png\"   alt=\"John Mahama\" title=\"John Mahama\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>People on Twitter are expressing varied reactions after former president John Dramani Mahama posted an emoji reaction to President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s recent call on his peers across Africa to desist from begging the West.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama on Thursday morning posted a double emoji of monkeys with eyes closed after retweeting a post by a former Nigerian Senator, Shehu Sani.<\/p>\n<p>Sani juxtaposed Ghana\u2019s current economic engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s call to not beg the West.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded in a December 14 tweet that President Akufo-Addo was using one hand to take IMF support and using the other hand to caution his peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana\u2019s President is collecting IMF loan with the right hand and using the left hand to warn African Governments against begging the west for money,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"art\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude48\ud83d\ude48 https:\/\/t.co\/kS7svwfj5O<\/p>\n<p>        \u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/1603275360011014144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MpGZssWNjCw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (15-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpGZssWNjCw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mahama People on Twitter are expressing varied reactions after former president John Dramani Mahama posted an emoji reaction to President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s recent call on his peers across Africa to desist from begging the West. Mr Mahama on Thursday morning posted a double emoji of monkeys with eyes closed after retweeting a post by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265742","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=1265742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}