{"id":3786,"date":"2024-08-28T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2024-08-28T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:21:15","slug":"former-president-mahama-mocks-vice-president-bawumias-speech-impediment-during-a-media-appearance-where-he-stumbled-over-his-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Former President Mahama mocks Vice President Bawumia&#8217;s speech impediment during a media appearance, where he stumbled over his words."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/85192776.295-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3787\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Flagbearer of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Democratic Congress<\/a>\u00a0(NDC),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Dramani Mahama<\/a>, has criticised Vice President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/a>\u00a0for some of his comments during a media encounter held on Sunday, August 25, 2024.<br><br>According to Mahama, Bawumia\u2019s encounter was intended to divert attention from the NDC\u2019s manifesto.<br><br>\u201cThe intention for doing that media encounter the next day after we had announced our manifesto was to divert the attention of Ghanaians from the NDC manifesto. That was the main reason they decided to do a media encounter the very next day after we launched our manifesto,&#8221; he said.<br><br>He also accused the flagbearer of the NPP of telling lying to Ghanaians, adding that he stammered whenever he faced difficult questions.<br><br>\u201cWhen you do something with devious intentions, it backfires on you. You know how to tell if people are lying: if people who are smooth talkers, who can speak like machine guns, suddenly become stammerers, you know they are lying. Somebody who has been speaking \u2018ratatatata\u2019 like an AK-47 suddenly, at a media encounter, starts stammering,\u201d he said during day one of his two-day tour of Ada as part of his Greater Accra Regional Campaign on Tuesday, August 27.<br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flagbearer of the\u00a0National Democratic Congress\u00a0(NDC),\u00a0John Dramani Mahama, has criticised Vice President\u00a0Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia\u00a0for some of his comments during a media encounter held on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}