{"id":994763,"date":"2022-02-17T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/mahama-denies-coup-plot-allegations\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:56:46","slug":"mahama-denies-coup-plot-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/mahama-denies-coup-plot-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama denies coup plot allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/John-Mahama-637x424-1.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"John-Mahama-637x424-1\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former President John Mahama has dispelled claims that he is orchestrating a plan to unconstitutionally overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama, in a February 16 statement, dismissed any such assertion of any coup describing it as false.<\/p>\n<p>The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC,\u00a0was granted bail after he was charged with publication of false news, offensive conduct conducive to breach of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Baffoe claimed that the 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had planned to stage a coup against the government.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>But he was unable to substantiate them when he was invited by the police. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Abronye-DC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2081128\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>According to the statement, signed by Mr Mahama\u2019s Special Aide, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the accusations were concocted stories targeted at courting disaffection for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time Abronye has made such despicable and reprehensible allegations and caused same to be published about President Mahama and many other leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She further explained the former President\u2019s democratic credentials make it impossible for him to even consider such a route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, any attempt to align or associate him with anti-democratic activities, acts of destabilization, and abuse of human and other rights, cannot be true,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full statement:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-16-at-11.11.30-PM-757x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Mahama not planning any coup - Joyce Mogtari\" class=\"wp-image-10032020003\" title=\"Mahama not planning any coup - Joyce Mogtari\"\/><\/figure>\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=\"zSYN4yisBQk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isn&#039;t she truly an African queen\ud83d\udc78?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSYN4yisBQk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Mahama has dispelled claims that he is orchestrating a plan to unconstitutionally overthrow the government. Mr Mahama, in a February 16 statement, dismissed any such assertion of any coup describing it as false. The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC,\u00a0was granted bail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994763","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\/994763","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=994763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}