{"id":223362,"date":"2016-06-18T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T09:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223362"},"modified":"2016-06-18T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T09:45:56","slug":"how-mahamas-daughter-eased-the-pain-of-losing-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223362","title":{"rendered":"How Mahama’s daughter eased the pain of losing a mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday,\u00a0revealed how his eight (8) year old daughter, Farida Mahama, consoled him and promised to be there for him as a replacement for his deceased mother, who was buried on Friday, June 17.<\/p>\n

The first family was hit with the sad news of the demise of the mother of the President, Abiba Nnaba, last Tuesday, at aged 85.<\/p>\n

Condolences came in from all kinds of people such as the opposition \u00a0party leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, former presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor among others.<\/p>\n

But the most touching words of comfort for President Mahama, which he shared on his official Twitter account, may have come from his eight year-old daughter, Farida Mahama.<\/p>\n

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President Mahama shared the soothing words of his daughter as he prepared to bury his mother on Friday: \u00a0\u201cSmile! You lost your mother, but you have me\u201d Farida told her daddy.<\/p>\n

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Abiba Nnaba, born 1931, was buried in Bunusu in West Gonja on Friday in line with Islamic tradition.<\/p>\n

The Mahama family including President Mahama , Alfred Mahama, Ibrahim Mahama and the First Lady, Lordina Mahama, witnessed the burial<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in front of the late Hajia Abiba Nnaba\u2019s private residence.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday,\u00a0revealed how his eight (8) year old daughter, Farida Mahama, consoled him and promised to be there for him as a replacement for his deceased mother, who was buried on Friday, June 17. The first family was hit with the sad news of the demise of the mother of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":223364,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223362","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=223362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}