‘Adom-Otchere Wanted Me to Create a Position for Him Under NDC Government’ – Ato Ahwoi

A founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ato Ahwoi, has alleged that journalist and former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Paul Adom-Otchere, once lobbied him for a political appointment during an NDC administration.

Speaking on the October 3, 2025, edition of Good Morning Ghana, Ahwoi claimed Adom-Otchere visited him during the NDC’s time in government and requested that a position be created for him.

“…Paul Adom-Otchere is a person who has never found anything correct with the NDC. He is one of the people who always wants to be on the side of Akufo-Addo. I know the relationship between him and Akufo-Addo, and he, Paul, knows that the things I’m talking about are correct.

“This is the Paul Adom-Otchere, when NDC was in power, who came to my office and wanted me to create a position for him. But let him do the mischief that he’s trying to do. He’s on a mischief assignment and it’s not going to help him in any way, shape or form,” Ahwoi stated.

The comment came amid his sharp rebuke to critics, telling Adom-Otchere to “keep quiet and shut [his] mouth.”

Responding on the same program as a panelist, Adom-Otchere admitted that he used to visit Ahwoi frequently during the late President John Atta Mills’ administration but denied ever formally requesting a job.

“…I have friends in the NDC. I am generally a political animal, so I like to follow politics a lot. It is true that when Uncle Ato was at Church Street in those days of Mills, I would go there often with Harry. I don’t remember asking him to give me a position, but yes, I visited him all the time. I will harass him for this and that and that’s also true,” Adom-Otchere clarified.

The exchange added another twist to the ongoing media and political debates surrounding the role of journalists in partisan politics.