{"id":46829,"date":"2023-03-21T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/21\/why-i-rejected-kufours-offer-to-join-politics-maurice-ampaw\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T08:59:40","slug":"why-i-rejected-kufours-offer-to-join-politics-maurice-ampaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/21\/why-i-rejected-kufours-offer-to-join-politics-maurice-ampaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I rejected Kufour\u2019s offer to join politics \u2013 Maurice Ampaw \u00bb \u2122-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-legal-practitioner-lawyer-maurice-ampaw-has-disclosed-why-he-rejected-the-offer-from-former-president-john-agyekum-kufour-to-join-politics\">Legal practitioner Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has disclosed why he rejected the offer from former President John Agyekum Kufour to join politics.<\/h2>\n<p>According to Maurice Ampaw, he rejected the offer to join politics due to his high moral ethics. He disclosed that he is too truthful to lie as a politician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Nana Ama McBrown adopts one-year-old baby who has lost her mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/mo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-327397\" width=\"684\" height=\"530\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter the death of my father, president Kufour Nana Addo, many people came to his funeral at Kukurantumi in 1995, at that time president Kufour had won the primaries to contest J.J. Rawlings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, president Kuffour asked me, is that my father J.D Ampaw? And I said yes and he asked me to join them\u2026let the politicians do their politics because, for me, I don\u2019t know how to invoke gods for evil intentions, I don\u2019t like chaos, I\u2019m not that type, and I don\u2019t have that mentality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Tracey Boakye reacts to reports of sacking her nanny for allegedly sleeping with husband\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While speaking in an episode of Mmra Ne Abrao Mu Nsem on Wontumi TV, Maurice Ampaw added that politics is a game filled with evil, falsehoods, and deception, and he thinks he would have lost his life if he had entered earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized that it wasn\u2019t my call, if I had gone into it, I would have died early because most politicians are liars and for me, I also speak the truth always, so I decided to shun politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.68.1 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Legal practitioner Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has disclosed why he rejected the offer from former President John Agyekum Kufour to join politics. 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