{"id":151198,"date":"2015-09-13T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T11:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=151198"},"modified":"2015-09-13T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T12:15:00","slug":"bawumia-leaves-for-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=151198","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia leaves for Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate to flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has left Ghana to Mecca to perform the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He left the country on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Y0HakZTmPn3OVRJUaCR4ucZzuGJlMeuH&#8221;]He is accompanied by his wife, Samira Bawumia and they are expected to join thousands of Ghanaians and millions of Muslims around the world in performing this year\u2019s Hajj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and fulfils one of the conditions for total submission to the will of Allah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement signed by Dr. Bawumia&#8217;s press secretary, Kwabena Boadu said\u00a0&#8220;while on the Pilgrimage, Dr. Bawumia will use the spiritual exercise to among others pray for the people and nation of Ghana and to request Allah&#8217;s blessing for Ghana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/09\/03\/mahama-sees-off-hajj-pilgrims\/\" target=\"_blank\">total of 5424 Ghanaians<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>are expected to embark on the hajj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate to flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has left Ghana to Mecca to perform the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj. He left the country on Saturday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Y0HakZTmPn3OVRJUaCR4ucZzuGJlMeuH&#8221;]He is accompanied by his wife, Samira Bawumia and they are expected to join thousands of Ghanaians and millions of Muslims around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41266,"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],"class_list":["post-151198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151198","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}