Politics has always been a game of strategies — sometimes clean, often messy, but rarely honest. And in the heat of Ghana’s fiercely contested 2024 elections, a truth many suspected but never heard officially has now been boldly confirmed by someone from within.
Maurice Ampaw, a known legal practitioner and a proud member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stunned many with a rare admission — an open confession that the NPP knew John Dramani Mahama was no joke.
Contrary to what was sold to the Ghanaian public, they didn’t see Mahama as a tired ex-president clinging to lost glory. No. Behind closed doors, they were terrified of him.
Speaking on his show on Wontumi FM, monitored by MyNewsGhm, Ampaw said;
“We knew Mahama was our biggest threat,” he said calmly, his voice betraying neither pride nor regret, just honesty.
“Forget the public noise. Internally, we respected him. We feared him. And we knew if the NDC presented him, it was going to be a difficult election.”
It was a far cry from the NPP’s public posture at the time. During rallies, press conferences, and media engagements, leading voices within the NPP worked tirelessly to shape a narrative — that Mahama was outdated, out of touch, and out of chances. But as Ampaw tells it now, that was pure strategy. Pure politics.
“The plan was simple,” he admitted. “We had to destroy his image before the people. We had to create doubt in their minds. Not because we believed he had nothing to offer — but because we knew he had too much to offer.”
