Private business man, Ibrahim Mahama, has sued the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako over what he says are defamatory comments made against him.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mahama, who is brother to President John Mahama in his statement of claim to the Fast Track High Court in Accra said, Mr. Antwi-Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, made the defamatory comments on March 30, 2014 at a People\u2019s Forum at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim Mahama, the plaintiff in the case, is seeking a declaration from the court that the statements made by Chairman Wontumi are false, malicious and defamatory.<\/p>\n
He is demanding GHC 2 million cedis as damages for the defamatory statements made against him.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mahama is also praying the court to “compel the defendant to publish a full and unqualified apology to the Plaintiff and retraction of the statements made in all the newspapers and tabloids in which the defamatory statements were repeated by their publication of the same.”<\/p>\n