{"id":7600,"date":"2019-09-05T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2019-09-05T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:17:13","slug":"social-media-users-charge-on-akufo-addo-following-handshake-snub-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/09\/05\/social-media-users-charge-on-akufo-addo-following-handshake-snub-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Users &#8216;Charge&#8217; On Akufo-Addo Following &#8216;Handshake Snub&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users are not sparing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after the emergence of a video of him subtly avoiding a \u2018proper\u2019 handshake with Former President John Dramani Mahama on several social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Mahama and President Akufo-Addo have over time, been captured in several videos and photos, chatting, and interacting heartily, sometimes, exchanging a few words and laughing.<\/p>\n<p>A trending video circulating on social media, however, portrays a somewhat \u2018different\u2019 situation and raises questions about the current relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p>The President appeared to have somewhat given a rather unusually brief handshake to his \u2018contender\u2019 when he went round to shake hands with dignitaries present at the maiden edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum Wednesday, September 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared as though the former President was \u2018skipped\u2019 with the pleasantries; his demeanor with the persons just before and after the former president has raised eyebrows of several Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlorentJAYB\/status\/1169523999820394496<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IssifuKudus\/status\/1169514543074238465<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IssifuKudus\/status\/1169514543074238465<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is how intolerant <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NAkufoAddo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NAkufoAddo<\/a> can be. How did we even allow a person like this to be Prez.? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/wotw3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wotw3<\/a> <br \/>Mahama will continue to give Ghanaians reasons why he should return to the seat of Govt. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uymDqBTjc6\">pic.twitter.com\/uymDqBTjc6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elvis Yorm (@Elvisyorm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Elvisyorm\/status\/1169511966022471681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KofiAdoli\/status\/1169507526204887042<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No unity between the first 2 gentlemen of our dear country and we talking about uniting Africa in General&#8230; Disgusting from Nana Addo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iWYmagn5Iv\">https:\/\/t.co\/iWYmagn5Iv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Xtragains (@xtragains) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xtragains\/status\/1169547462945705984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PATRICK58146777\/status\/1169520136753225729<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: ghanaweb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users are not sparing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after the emergence of a video of him subtly avoiding a \u2018proper\u2019 handshake with Former President John Dramani Mahama on several social media platforms. Former President John Mahama and President Akufo-Addo have over time, been captured in several videos and photos, chatting, and interacting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,12758,10344,12502,11509,1031,6638,1264,1265,130,5396,3805,7669,5655,5349,5350,8033],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-captured","tag-emergence","tag-ghanaians","tag-ghanaweb","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-john-mahama","tag-kofi-annan","tag-kofi-annan-peace-and-security-forum","tag-mahama","tag-peace","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}