{"id":744859,"date":"2022-01-11T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/how-some-politicians-reacted-to-ghanas-loss-to-morocco\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:17:05","slug":"how-some-politicians-reacted-to-ghanas-loss-to-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/how-some-politicians-reacted-to-ghanas-loss-to-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"How some politicians reacted to Ghana&#8217;s loss to Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/24634118.295.jpg\" alt=\"MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa spent time with some of his constituents\" title=\"MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa spent time with some of his constituents\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa spent time with some of his constituents<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>2021 AFCON underway in Cameroon <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana loses first game <\/p>\n<p>Some politicians tweet about Ghana game against Morocco<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s loss to the Atlas Lions of Morocco during their first encounter in the on-going African Cup of Nations was not only hard on regular, everyday football pundits or soccer lovers. <\/p>\n<p>And while the widely-publicised video of Sarkodie is one that largely expressed the reactions of most Ghanaians to the defeat of the Black Stars in that encounter, there have also been a few politicians reacting to the game. <\/p>\n<p><b>Sam George<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, expressed hope and optimism even after the loss, stating that this is only a game and that there are more opportunities for the boys to prove themselves to the country.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Still, I want to believe. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. I want to hold on to hope. 2 more games to go! It is still possible to twinkle in Cameroon! Let&#8217;s go Black Stars!????????????<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFCON<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HavwNPikx9\">pic.twitter.com\/HavwNPikx9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam &#8216;Dzata&#8217; George (@samgeorgegh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samgeorgegh\/status\/1480599682309144583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, watched the game with some of his constituents and shared photos together with them after the game. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">It was a privilege watching the Black Stars opening match with leaders of the North Tongu Branch of the Ghana Society for the Physically Disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by their positive energy. They wish for us to keep supporting the Black Stars; we are only down momentarily but not out.???????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BRNHG65sBC\">pic.twitter.com\/BRNHG65sBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/S_OkudzetoAblak\/status\/1480681495064985601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Joyce Bawah Mogtari<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Special Aide to the former president, John Dramani Mahama, had questions after the game. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring back the love, how can this love be reciprocated when the said love has remained unrequited for at least 40 years !!! #BlackStars&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Bring back the love, how can this love be reciprocated when the said love has remained unrequited for at least 40 years !!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackStars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joyce Bawah Mogtari (@joyce_bawah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joyce_bawah\/status\/1480825052002242561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A displeased Gabby Otchere-Darko descended on the coach, Milovan Rajevac, describing his performance as &#8220;awful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Pretty awful coaching. Team not performing for most of 80 minutes, you wait until you are a goal down with 5 minutes of play left to bring on 3 substitutes in a panic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabbyDarko\/status\/1480597192196898826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Felix Kwakye Ofosu<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For the former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, an avid supporter of the Black Stars, had little words to say: &#8220;Still Ghana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffelix.kwakyeofosu%2Fposts%2F10221401419127340&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"158\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa spent time with some of his constituents 2021 AFCON underway in Cameroon Ghana loses first game Some politicians tweet about Ghana game against Morocco Ghana\u2019s loss to the Atlas Lions of Morocco during their first encounter in the on-going African Cup of Nations was not only hard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":744860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744859","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\/744859","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=744859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}