{"id":10881,"date":"2023-11-23T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/10881\/man-utds-maguire-accepts-apology\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:57:10","slug":"man-utds-maguire-accepts-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=10881","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd&#8217;s Maguire accepts apology from Ghanaian politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd&#8217;s Maguire accepts apology from Ghanaian politician\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester United footballer Harry Maguire has accepted an apology from a Ghanaian MP who mocked him during a parliamentary budget debate last year.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition MP Isaac Adongo has compared Vice President Mahamadu Bawumia&#8217;s economic management in the troubled West African country to Maguire&#8217;s performance on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a speech widely shared on social media last year, Adongo compared Bawumia to Maguire, who he described as &#8220;the biggest threat in the center of Manchester United&#8217;s defence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The reference was part of a broader discourse accusing Bawumia of mismanaging the economy and inflicting hardship on citizens.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Harry Maguire has started all of Manchester United&#8217;s last five Premier League games. <cite>Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt &#8211; AMA\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>During a similar debate on the 2024 budget on Tuesday, Adongo said Maguire had &#8220;turned the corner&#8221; and repeated his analogy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now apologize to Harry Maguire,\u201d Adongo said.  \u201cHe\u2019s a transformative footballer&#8230; he\u2019s now scoring goals for Manchester <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMP Issac Adongo\u2019s apology has been accepted,\u201d Maguire responded Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee you soon at Old Trafford,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd&#8217;s Maguire accepts apology from Ghanaian politician\u060c Manchester United footballer Harry Maguire has accepted an apology from a Ghanaian MP who mocked him during a parliamentary budget debate last year. Opposition MP Isaac Adongo has compared Vice President Mahamadu Bawumia&#8217;s economic management in the troubled West African country to Maguire&#8217;s performance on the ground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6261,6262,6263,882,32,6264,5958],"class_list":["post-10881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-accepts","tag-apology","tag-ghanaian","tag-maguire","tag-man","tag-politician","tag-utds"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}