An outspoken foot soldier of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has boldly stated that even if the Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, is jailed, they will still vote massively for him to become the party’s National Chairman.
The NPP footsoldier warned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government against what they describe as alleged attempts to secure the imprisonment of Chairman Wontumi.
He alleged that efforts to have Wontumi jailed are politically motivated, aimed at preventing him from becoming the next National Chairman of the NPP.
Speaking to the media, the NPP footsoldier stated, “If they think jailing Chairman Wontumi will stop his march to the National Chairmanship, then they should think again. Even if he is serving a prison sentence at Nsawam, we will vote massively for him. Nothing will stop us from making him our next National Chairman”.
“We are not afraid of the NDC—not today and not tomorrow. We dare them to carry out their alleged plans and see the reaction from the grassroots of the NPP”, they said.
Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Yandoh, has begged President John Mahama on his knees on live TV not to allow Chairman Wontumi to go to prison.
In a live show on Prime Rakon, Paul Yandoh made a passionate appeal to President John Dramani Mahama to intervene in the ongoing prosecutions against Wontumi.
Speaking in an interview on June 15, 2026, Paul Yandoh went on his knees and begged President Mahama, saying, “We know that there were excesses in some of the cases, and if you don’t come in, it would only end with… We are on our knees, begging; please intervene in this matter.
“Don’t let Wontumi go to prison; I’m on my knees begging, Mr President. We know you are a father for all; please don’t let Wontumi go, don’t let him go (to prison). We are on our knees begging”.
He added, “Please intervene so that Wontumi would not go to prison. We know that if you speak, the matter will come to an end. Mr President, have mercy on Wontumi.”
Earlier, Paul Yandoh disclosed that Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, would be the first national chairman of the NPP to be elected while in prison.
The NPP man, listening to the conversations surrounding Wontumi’s ongoing trial, he beileves the NPP Ashanti Regional chairman would be jailed.
According to Paul Yandoh, even if Wontumi is jailed, they will still vote for him as the NPP’s national chairman.
He further claimed that the NDC government will have no option but to release Wontumi after he is voted as the NPP chairman.
Speaking in an interview on Okay FM on June 12, 2026, Paul Yandoh stated, “When you listen to lawyer Appiah-Kubi, he says if the court follows the law and not public opinion, Wontumi will not be guilty of any crime. So, if a lawyer says this, is it not prison that you are going to?
“That would mean Wontumi will be the first national chairman to be elected while in prison. And the NDC government will have no option but to release him. We will vote for him, and we will vote for him even in prison,” Yandoh emphasised.
Meanwhile, Samuel Atta Akyea, a lawyer for Chairman Wontumi, have filed a written address in the Accra High Court asking the presiding judge to stay the delivery of judgment in the Samreboi illegal mining case.
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