{"id":116734,"date":"2015-05-16T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=116734"},"modified":"2015-05-16T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:03:36","slug":"dumsor-vigil-ndcs-halidu-haruna-chased-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=116734","title":{"rendered":"Dumsor Vigil: NDC&#8217;s Halidu Haruna chased out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress&#8217; (NDC), Alhaji Halidu Haruna&#8217;s was whisked away to safety by the Police after some participants in the ongoing\u00a0&#8216;Dumsor Vigil&#8217; attempted beating him up.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;71CXGv9mX8ZWZWnevaoeIDy0n5V9KkUn&#8221;]The anger of the protestors stem from Haruna&#8217;s post on his Facebook page describing the female celebrities organizing the &#8216;dumsor vigil&#8217; as prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0Godwin Akweiteh Allotey, the &#8220;protesters hit him with sachet water and hooted at him upon his arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel who were present at the scene were compelled to whisk him away to\u00a0safety.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Haruna was widely criticized for verbally assaulting the female celebrities on Social Media.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/05\/audio-teary-halidu-haruna-apologizes-to-lydia-forson-et-al\/#sthash.17AgLVw1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> apologized and retracted<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>his statement and told<strong> Citi News,<\/strong>\u00a0he wishes he never uttered those words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MG_6770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116768\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MG_6770.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_6770\" width=\"768\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MG_6770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MG_6770-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am dumbfounded as I speak to you now. I wish I could swallow back those words but unfortunately, those words are out there in the public domain. I want to once again retract and reemphasize the apology and say that I am sorry to those I many have disappointed by those words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/halidu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-116747\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/halidu.jpg\" alt=\"halidu\" width=\"794\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/halidu.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/halidu-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he announced that he will be partaking in the vigil but the reception he received is indicative\u00a0some Ghanaians are still embittered by his actions.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Dumsor Vigil&#8217; is being spearheaded by Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson with the aim of forcing the government to urgently find a permanent solution to the three-year energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress&#8217; (NDC), Alhaji Halidu Haruna&#8217;s was whisked away to safety by the Police after some participants in the ongoing\u00a0&#8216;Dumsor Vigil&#8217; attempted beating him up. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;71CXGv9mX8ZWZWnevaoeIDy0n5V9KkUn&#8221;]The anger of the protestors stem from Haruna&#8217;s post on his Facebook page describing the female celebrities organizing the &#8216;dumsor vigil&#8217; as prostitutes. According to Citi News&#8217;\u00a0Godwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":116752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,6],"class_list":["post-116734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}