Peter Mac Manu
THE CAMPAIGN Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has said the ruling party should not be blamed for the election of ex-President John Dramani Mahama as the 2020 presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He has, therefore, called on the NDC to ‘face up’ to the realities of the time and convince the electorate why the party is bringing “an inept, clueless and incompetent Mahama back to power after he had run down the country in the manner that he did.”
Addressing the media on Thursday evening, the NPP campaign manager said the NPP did not elect Mr. Mahama as flag bearer for the party, but the NDC members did, and that “if they find that he is an albatross around their necks, they should not be making excuses way ahead of the election in order to justify his loss in December which is inevitable.”
He was responding to allegations that the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Insurance Authority (NIA) are in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 elections in favour of the NPP.
“It is not the fault of NPP that the NDC chose to bring back as their 2020 presidential candidate the very same man who has given Ghana the worst economic growth performance since 1994. It is not the fault of President Akufo-Addo that the NDC has very little confidence in its own chosen candidate for 2020, John Mahama,” Mr. Manu stated.
He said the NPP is and cannot be part of any conspiracy to rig the 2020 elections, and that the NDC has sat together to plan and come out with the details of its “fake conspiracy theory against the NPP.”
“A fake conspiracy does not become a credible conspiracy just because an opposition is afraid of losing a free and fair contest,” he noted, and added that under the former President rigging of election took place.
The NPP campaign manager said “it is that record of a rigged leadership under John Dramani Mahama that the NDC must be afraid of bringing back to face the Ghanaian people for their votes and not any fake conspiracy to rig the elections against them.”
“NDC must be reminded that the NPP, as an opposition party, beat the NDC in 2020 and by the largest margin ever in Ghana’s history against an incumbent President.
“It is not the fault of any Ghanaian that the NDC chose to bring back as their presidential candidate for 2020 the very man in whose hands the NDC suffered their biggest defeat in their history,” he pointed out.
The NPP wants Ghanaians to ask the NDC what is it about the 2012 voters’ register that the NDC is so determined to protect it from being replaced, and is threatening civil war if it is changed for a better one.
“Why is the NDC placing its entire electoral fortunes on that controversial register which was compiled under their term in office?” he asked rhetorically, and added that this is the first time ever that an opposition party in Ghana has complained so loudly against the compilation of a new voters’ register.
By Ernest Kofi Adu