Lawyer Ace Ankomah, in September 2017, rose to the defence of NDC's serial caller, Frank Kwaku Appiah, popularly known as Appiah Stadium, for tagging President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a 'wee smoker'.

Following Appiah Stadium's arrest, Ankomah argued that insulting the president is not an offence according to the laws of the country and, therefore, his arrest was uncalled for. "Until 2001, it was an offence to insult the president.

Section 183A of the Criminal Offences Act provided that if a person who intends to bring the President into hatred, ridicule or contempt publishes any defamatory or insulting matter about the President, that person could be liable to a fine and/or imprisonment.

But come 2001, the NPP government repealed this section together with the repeal of the then criminal libel laws," he said.