{"id":62770,"date":"2023-12-21T06:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/napo-reacts-to-bawumia-is-useless-video"},"modified":"2023-12-21T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:55:36","slug":"napo-reacts-to-bawumia-is-useless-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/napo-reacts-to-bawumia-is-useless-video","title":{"rendered":"NAPO Reacts to \u2018Bawumia is useless Video\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has asked the public to disregard an old video circulating of him addressing the economy with caption \u2018Bawumia running mate says Bawumia is useless\u2019.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He claims that the video\u2019s caption implies that Napo is disparaging the Vice President as being useless.<\/p>\n<p>As per Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh\u2019s statement, the video\u2019s context refutes the malicious interpretation that has been attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by his Press Aide, Kofi Afena Abrefa, the video in question was recorded in February 2014, during which he was responding to then-President John Mahama\u2019s State of the Nations address.<\/p>\n<p>Read full statement below ;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62765 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131437.593009.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131437.593009.jpg 753w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131437.593009-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131437.593009-602x1024.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NAPO responds<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62767 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131455.323641.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131455.323641.jpg 714w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131455.323641-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1703131455.323641-571x1024.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has asked the public to disregard an old video circulating of him addressing the economy with caption \u2018Bawumia running mate says Bawumia is useless\u2019. He claims that the video\u2019s caption implies that Napo is disparaging the Vice President as being useless. As per Dr. Matthew Opoku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-62770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAPO Reacts to \u2018Bawumia is useless Video\u2019 - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/napo-reacts-to-bawumia-is-useless-video\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NAPO Reacts to \u2018Bawumia is useless Video\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. 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