{"id":57140,"date":"2018-11-30T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=57140"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T11:04:50","slug":"aligning-yourselves-with-political-parties-will-ruin-your-careers-lenny-akpadie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/aligning-yourselves-with-political-parties-will-ruin-your-careers-lenny-akpadie\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligning yourselves with Political parties will ruin your careers- Lenny Akpadie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel musician, Reverend Lenny Akpadie cautions Ghanaian musicians. According to him, they must not be involved in politics especially during election years.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, according to him, it looks lucrative at the time. However, it goes along to affect these musicians negatively in the future.<\/p>\n<p>He further recounted his experience with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in December, 2008. Rev. Akpadie said that selling his hit song \u201cMost High\u201d to the NDC, was a big mistake that he regrets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>I gave my song to NDC for a year and they gave me GHC 7,500 even though I never performed at any of the NDC\u2019s functions. The party wanted me to take to their platforms but I refused. I can say for sure that musicians who are in the limelight and associate themselves with political parties will suffer for it\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, he added people tagged him as NDC during the process which went along to affect most of his business deals. His marriage almost collapsed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel musician, Reverend Lenny Akpadie cautions Ghanaian musicians. According to him, they must not be involved in politics especially during election years. Moreover, according to him, it looks lucrative at the time. However, it goes along to affect these musicians negatively in the future. 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