‘Stop the hypocrisy! Smiling with Ibrahim Mahama is a piss-off’ - Ampaw blasts NPP stalwarts

Legal practitioner and media personality, Maurice Ampaw, has openly criticised some top stalwarts of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for being welcoming towards business mogul Ibrahim Mahama at the funeral of Peter Mac Manu’s wife over the weekend. Speaking on Movement TV, Maurice Ampaw urged the NPP stalwarts to stop being hypocritical, arguing that their warm interaction with the business mogul was a “piss-off” to some party foot soldiers. “To those NPP executives who when Ibrahim Mahama came to the funeral and were smiling and chit-chatting with him, that is a piss-off to some of our party foot soldiers. Stop the hypocrisy. For me, there’s no way I will see Ibrahim Mahama and get close to him. That’s my life. I don’t hate him, but I don’t like someone who is a hypocrite,” he said. The legal practitioner believes that Ibrahim Mahama and his associates looked on while former Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Wontumi, was sentenced to imprisonment, claiming that Ibrahim Mahama had what it took to prevent the former NPP chairman from going to jail. “How can Ibrahim Mahama and co allow Wontumi to be jailed when he has what it takes to save Wontumi? I am the lawyer for Wontumi against Ibrahim Mahama, so I know what I am talking about when I say he has what it takes to save Wontumi,” he said. Watch Ibrahim Mahama, NAPO and others engage in playful banter at a funeral He questioned how Chairman Wontumi would feel if he came across videos circulating on social media showing NPP officials smiling, shaking hands and chit-chatting with someone whom he believes could have influenced the government hierarchy to prevent him from going to jail. “They swore to deal with Wontumi, and now they have fulfilled it. Today, they are at a funeral, and you NPP executives allow Ibrahim Mahama to be in your midst, shake hands with you and chit-chat with you. How would Wontumi feel?” he asked. Maurice Ampaw further claimed that Ibrahim Mahama is trying to “play smart” with both major political parties by maintaining relationships with individuals on both sides of the political divide, so that if there is a change of government, nobody can hold him accountable because of those relationships. “Ibrahim Mahama is trying to play smart with both parties, NDC and NPP, so that when the government changes, nobody can touch him,” he noted. He further stated that, for him, anyone who played a role in the imprisonment of Chairman Wontumi would be considered an enemy and would never be his friend. “For me, anybody who played a role in jailing Chairman Wontumi, including the judge who presided over the case, even though she was my classmate, is not my friend. If I see her, I will pass her by. But for jailing Wontumi at that speed, she has become my enemy for life,” he added. On September 12, 2026, videos circulated on social media showing business mogul Ibrahim Mahama sharing a light-hearted moment with some NPP stalwarts, including Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, at the final funeral rites of Peter Mac Manu’s wife. Ibrahim Mahama and the NPP stalwarts were captured in a hearty conversation, smiling, laughing and teasing each other as they interacted at the gathering. @movementtv_gh Stop the hypocrisy, smiling with Ibrahim Mahama is a piss off- Lawyer Maurice Ampaw tells Napo ♬ original sound - Movement TV/Wontumi Radio 95.9 'Dubai Sef De Flood' – Man Blasts Authorities Over Laboma Demolition AK/AM Source: GhanaWeb (https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Stop-the-hypocrisy-Smiling-with-Ibrahim-Mahama-is-a-piss-off-Ampaw-blasts-NPP-stalwarts-2052219)