Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Spokesperson for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said all Ghanaians are hypocrites, except him.
“In this country, to put it bluntly, we are all hypocrites,” he said on the KeyPoints show on TV3 on Saturday, May 23, 2026, adding that he is the only exception to that description.
“Edudzi is a hypocrite. I think I’m the only person that is not a hypocrite,” he added.
He explained that it’s either he repeats something he says at one point in time in the future, or he keeps quiet over it. “I know I have a big mouth so everything I say, I make sure I’m very sure that tomorrow, either I’ll say the same thing or I keep quiet.”
Miracles Aboagye further accused President Mahama and his government of stifling free speech, saying the Communication Ministry’s decision to trace people’s IPs to arrest them for making untoward comments is itself an action against free speech.
“This government, this President has gone against free speech. There is no other way of putting it. In fact, it’s a presidential policy. The man said that he is even going to use our IPs to identify us. When you want to control my speech it’s not free,” he stated, explaining that “free speech and hate speech are not the same.”
His comments stem from recent arrests of some persons whom according to security agencies have used hate speech and insults on others, especially government officials and political opponents, which they say have the propensity to destabilise the peace in the country.
The arrests, notably amongst them being the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe Agyei, a.k.a. Abronye, and others, which the party has bemoaned, and described as political intimidation of its members, it says, is a direct attempt to silence them from criticising the government.
Leadership of the NPP on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, petitioned the diplomatic corp on the development, urging them to monitor the country’s human rights situation which they said are being violated.
They have called for persons who feel defamed with comments of others to seek redress at the courts, rather than the arrests which they allege the Government is using to silence dissenting opinions.
In his explanation, Miracles Aboagye stressed that he is the only Ghanaian who is not a hypocrite because he criticised the very things he’s speaking against now, which he says are things he opposed when President Akufo-Addo was in power, which was his own government.
“I am never on record, that’s why I’m not a hypocrite, in fact I’m on record on my Facebook wall, for calling out the Ghana Police, for arresting people when Akufo-Addo was President. It’s on my wall. I have always been against that so I can speak,” he stated, accusing the NDC representative on the show, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, as a hypocrite and can therefore not comment on the development.
“But he can’t (speak) because when I go to his wall, there are several posts he has shared when Akufo-Addo was President, where he was expressing his displeasure for the police arresting people for making certain commentary against Akufo-Addo, including even people who may have said things against the First Lady and he was against it.
“The problem I have with Edudzi and all the other people in NDC today is that you might as well have kept quiet because all these things that are happening, which I admit during the NPP, the police had done similar things, are the same things happening now which you spoke against.”
