Salifu Maase, aka Mugabe, host of Accra-based Montie FM's Pampaso talkshow who is serving a four-month jail term for contempt of the Supreme Court has endured attempts by some unnamed activists of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to poison him, it has been revealed.
According to Managing Editor of the New Punch newspaper,  Baby Ansaba, who made the revelation on Atinka FM’s AM Drive on Friday, 12 August, "Mugabe told me that there was an attempt to poison him in prison. I just kept it to myself. It was corroborated by Gregory Afoko", brother of suspended chairman of the NPP, Paul Afoko who is standing trial for the murder of the NPP’s Upper East regional Chairman.
Though Baby Ansaba failed to give further details of the incident, the revelation may well serve as fuel for sympathisers of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to agitate more for the release of Maase and two of his panellists, Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn who jailed handed the same sentences as him for the same offence.
Two petitions urging President John Mahama to pardon the trio have been received and forwarded to the Council of State for further advice.
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