The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, has retracted his earlier corruption allegation against President John Dramani Mahama.

Popularly known as Abronye, he had previously accused the former president of withholding substantial sums of money meant for dismissed appointees at the Jubilee House.

“The Akufo-Addo government budgeted GH¢550 million for these individuals to be employed. This money comes from taxpayers, yet another government cancels the appointments and allegedly transfers the funds to the Jubilee House. So, what are you doing with the GH¢550 million that was put in bullion vans and sent to the Jubilee House?

“You have revoked people’s appointments, taken their GH¢550 million, and put it in a bullion van,” he alleged on Accra-based Movement TV in February 2025.

Abronye has clarified that his earlier remarks, stating that his reference to a bullion van transporting money to the presidency was figurative and had been misinterpreted.

During an appearance on Movement TV on February 28, 2025, following an invitation from the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to provide evidence for his corruption allegation against the president, he explained that his mention of the bullion van was not to suggest that the money was physically at the president’s residence or in his custody.

He stressed that his primary objective was to demand accountability for funds allocated to compensate public sector workers whose appointments had been terminated.

He further noted that these funds had been budgeted under the former Akufo-Addo administration and were captured in the 2024 budget for such purposes.“… In the 2024 budget, we allocated GH¢58 billion for all Ghanaian workers, including those employed during the 2024 fiscal year. I posed a question seeking to understand the whereabouts of the funds if the workers' appointments had been terminated. I wanted to get clarity by asking this question. That was when I made the statement that the money was being transported to the Jubilee House in a bullion van. The reference to the money being in a bullion van was simply a semantic expression I used. It does not mean that the money is physically at the president's residence or that he is personally spending it,” Abronye explained in the interview.The vocal NPP executive has expressed regret for making public an invitation letter from the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), which sought his cooperation regarding allegations he made against President John Dramani Mahama.

He admitted that the letter was intended to be confidential but acknowledged that his decision to publish it was an error.

“One of the things they didn't like, which I agree with, was my public disclosure of the invitation letter to the media. It was unethical for me to have done that. The letter clearly stated that the meeting was confidential, but when I was reading it, I failed to notice that detail. I apologise to them for that, as I shouldn’t have acted in that manner,” he added.