The Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party Yaw Buaben Asamoah says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has postponed their manifesto launch because their flagbearer still cannot determine what Ghanaians want.
According to the Adenta MP, the former president is still struggling to find out the needs of citizens in the country, subtly accusing him of trying to take a leaf out of the book of the NPP manifesto.
“Months before COVID-19 hit the world, John Mahama’s NDC set up a manifesto committee on a perilous journey to go and find out what Ghanaians want. After 16 years of NDC in the 28-year-old fourth Republic which he [Mahama] has ruled in 6 years of those years and the final decision maker in Ghana, he is still struggling to find out what Ghanaians governance priorities are.
“On July 1st 2020, the whole world was told that candidate Mahama has received the people’s manifesto and he said he was going to launch in August but when the NPP announced August 22 to launch its manifesto, the whole world was told theirs will follow on the August 29 and then came the bomb. Our manifesto hit them so hard making them postpone to 31st August and as we speak we are not sure it will come on as announced again on the 7th September.”
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), rescheduled the launch of their manifesto to September 7 according to a statement signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia on Friday, 28th August 2020.
“At its weekly meeting held on Thursday the 27th of August, 2020, the Functional Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress has fixed Monday the 7th day of September, 2020 as the date for the launch in Accra of the party’s Manifesto for the December 2020 General Elections. This is to enable the National Executive Committee and the Council of Elders approve the policy principles and strategies promised in the Manifesto. The event will be held virtually, in accordance with the appropriate Covid-19 regulations. It will be streamed live on various media outlets throughout the country”.
They are waiting to copy from us as usual- John Boadu
During the launch of NPP’s 2020 manifesto, the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu mocked NDC, accusing the latter of running out of campaign ideas ahead of the 2020 general election.
He posited that the opposition party was deliberately delaying the launch of its manifesto just to take clues from the campaign message of the Akufo-Addo led administration. They announced two months ago that their manifesto is ready, but they have not been able to launch it. Obviously, they are waiting for us to launch our manifesto so they can copy as usual, since they have no original ideas. Well, we have launched ours, so they are free to copy,” he stated.
