The Ashanti regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has said he finds it absurd for some people to praise former President John Mahama just because he pays his own electricity bills he uses personally.
According to the NPP Chairman popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, “it is a joke to praise John Mahama for paying his electricity bills when he has refused to return the ex-gratia he has collected from the state”.
“An oldman like him pays his own bills and wants us to applaud him so what about small boys who are not rich like him but also pay their bills? Small boys also pay their light bills so we must rather ask Mahama to return his ex-gratia to the state“, Chairman Wontumi said
He challenged Mr. Mahama to return every single ex-gratia he has collected from the state if he wants to win the hearts of Ghanaians.
Mahama in an interview with an Accra based TV station in 2022 said that all he receives from the government is his monthly pension and that all other bills the state must cater for have not been attended to since he left office in 2017.
Mahama said he is footing a myriad of bills, including light, fuel, office rent, and travel expenses.
But Chairman Wontumi rebuked him by stating that “you must be ashamed of yourself. Even 30 years old are paying their own rent and light bills.”
He went on to question him that “Why should a grown man like you still depend on the state when you have collected ex-gratia than any living or dead President in Ghana?”