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Ato Ahwoi, a founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has fired shots at Paul Adom-Otchere over his remarks concerning the NDC’s flagbearership race.
The NDC founding member highlighted that President Mahama has barely done nine months out of his four years.
According to Ato Ahwoi, Paul Adom-Otchere must keep quiet and shut his mouth and allow Mahama to serve.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana show on Friday, October 3, 2025, Ato Ahwoi, calling in the show, stated, “Mahama has done only nine months of the four years, and I don’t understand why we are going through this thing of trying to select a flagbearer now. It is not yet time.
President Mahama has done only nine months, and we have three and a half more years to go. So, people should just keep quiet and let him do his governance.
Paul Adom-Otchere, please keep quiet and shut your mouth and let Mahama serve his term. You never did what you are doing today when Akufo-Addo was in power,” he fumed.
Ato Ahwoi added, “I would like him [Paul] to concentrate on his NPP things, while we also concentrate on our NDC things. The NDC is very clear. It says that it will select a flagbearer at least within one year of the election, so it means we can choose to select our flagbearer sometime in 2028 or 2027”.
“All these things that are going on, causing confusion between Asiedu Nketiah and Julius Debrah, and everybody is a typical trademark of Paul Adom-Otchere and I don’t think we should give him the chance to do what he’s doing on the TV. We have our party, and we are running our party, and we know when we are going to elect our flagbearer”, he added.
Also, Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has told party members to kill the conversation surrounding who succeeds President John Mahama.
According to Mustapha Gbande, he is determined that President Mahama must succeed.
He emphasised that if the National Democratic Congress fail Ghanaians, they can bring Jesus Christ as a presidential candidate, they will still go to the opposition.
Speaking on JoyNews’ News Desk, Gbande stated, “I am determined that President Mahama must succeed, and that is my focus in the meantime,” he stated.
“That is also the focus of the larger and majority of individuals in our party. We cannot fail the masses, we cannot fail you, we cannot fail the people of Ghana. So let us kill this conversation for now. That discussion is one for when the time is right.”
“We just came to power, and we are yet to give a full account of our one-year term,” Gbande said.
The NDC Deputy General Secretary added, “In the proper context of political transitions, there has never been a time when any government has, within nine months, been met with the kind of expectations we now face”.
“Our trump card will be our performance. If we fail, we can go and bring Jesus Christ to come and lead the party; we will still go to the opposition,” he warned.
Gbande also took a swipe at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying, “The only luck we have is that the alternative is not something anyone would want to venture into. Currently, they are enemies of the state and very disorganised”.
“We are happy that these polls are coming, no two ways about it, but I am saying that this is not the time to engage in that conversation”, he added.
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Keep quiet and shut your mouth – NDC Founding Member, Ato Ahwoi, jabs Paul Adom-Otchere over his comments on the NDC flagbearership race#GoodMorningGhana #MetroTV pic.twitter.com/GAjp0iA7fI
— Metro TV Ghana (@metrotvgh) October 3, 2025