Paul Adom-Otchere, a Ghanaian broadcaster and the host of Good Evening Ghana, has claimed that President John Mahama has identified Ato Forson and John Jinapor as his preferred NDC candidates for the 2028 elections.
According to Adom-Otchere, John Mahama is backing Ato Forson following his performance in handling the Ghanaian economy as Finance Minister.
Adom-Otchere described the ticket of Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and John Abdulai Jinapor as the president’s ticket.
Speaking on his Good Evening Ghana show on October 31, 2025, Adom-Otchere alleged, “This is President Mahama’s ticket, from what we are hearing, Cassiel Forson, the finance minister… He’s been told that if he continues doing what he’s doing until the end of next year, he will be the anointed choice of John Mahama as the next flagbearer of the NDC”
Who is going to be his running mate, our good friend John Jinapor, member of parliament and minister for Energy. The two ways the NDC want to say they are doing well in government are one of them, energy, and the other is finance”.
He added, “Ato Forson will tell you that the cedi was 17, it is now 10, it’s a feather in his cap. He will tell you gold reserves have improved and petroleum prices have been stabilised”.
He further alleged that Cassiel Ato Forson has his eyes set on becoming the leader of the NDC.
“Cassiel Ato Forson is firmly focused on becoming the leader of the NDC, the presidential candidate of the NDC, going forward to the 2028 election, and his running mate is John Jinapor.
“John Jinapor, they call him ‘JJ’ in Parliament, and he’s the deal. The two of them, Ato Forson and Jinapor, are the president’s ticket. Forget about everything else,” Adom-Otchere asserted.
Meanwhile, Ato Ahwoi, a founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), had earlier 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.
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