The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has told Citi News that the party will most likely launch its manifesto in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital, Sunyani, at a yet to be announced date.
Mr. Asiedu Nketia confirmed this to Citi News on the side-lines of the party’s campaign launch event at Cape Coast in the Central Region.
“It is not possible for us to contain such a big national event in the two capitals. There is a pattern of rotating. We started in the Central Region and we are coming back to begin another round in Central Region. The manifesto launch will also happen at a different regional capital, preferably, Sunyani.”
NDC manifesto to follow 3-weeks after campaign launch
Already, the NDC, through one of its communicators, Solomon Nkansah, has indicated that the manifesto launch will come off three weeks after Sunday’s campaign launch.
The entire NDC has converged on the Cape Coast stadium in the Central Region, to launch its campaign and also outdoor its presidential nominee, running mate, national campaign team and parliamentary candidates.
But questions have been asked about why the party is not using the same platform to make its manifesto public with barely four months to the polls in December.
Some critics from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have gone as far as alleging that, the NDC is only delaying its manifesto launch in a bid to incorporate some of the NPP’s policies and programmes ahead of the election.
But Solomon Nkansah refuted these claims in a Citi News interview where he asserted that the party was only following a plan of activities.
“We are not delaying. We are following a planned programme, in a matter of three weeks from our launch, unless anything drastic happens, the NDC is launching its manifesto,” Mr. Nkansah revealed. “Why we always launch our campaign before the manifesto is that we always want to act to galvanize or energize the party and excite it then proceed to launch our manifesto,” he explained.
“The NPP themselves who are not ready, they want to make Ghanaians believe that it is rather the NDC who are not ready… It is unfortunate that the General Secretary is not here. I would have walked you to his office and shown you a copy, a bundle, large packed bundles of our manifesto.”
-citifmonline