National Youth Organizer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Opare Addo has described as hypocritical of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and others demanding the manifesto of the NDC in more than a year to the general elections in 2020.
"It has never happened before, and so, it is disingenuous on the part of the NPP and some so-called neutrals which we don’t know where they belong to be calling on the NDC to put out our campaign message within a year 2 months to the elections.”
According to him, it has never been the norm for political parties to put out their campaign message more than a year to elections when notably the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2016 disclosed its two major policies three weeks to the elections.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Pablo, as he is politically known, insisted that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) three weeks to the 2016 main elections rolled out its 'one-district-one-factory' and 'one-village-one-dam' policies.
"All that the NPP is saying is that the NDC doesn’t have a message for the 2020 elections. In 2016, it was three weeks to the elections before their manifesto came out. Two months to the elections before we heard their two major policy statements, that is, 1D1F, 1V1D, and these policies came out 2 to 3 months to the 2016 elections,” he argued.
He asserted that the most touted 'Free SHS' policy of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was not one of the leading campaign issues when Ghanaians demanded that the NPP come out with its manifesto before the 2016 general elections.
" . . the Free SHS policy was not one of their leading campaign issues because right from the word, go, there was no message until 2 to 3 months to the elections when Ghanaians demanded from them before they brought their manifesto out,” he recalled.
He was of the view that inasmuch as the NDC has not rolled out its campaign message for the 2020 elections, does not mean the party is banned from having discussions on the ruling NPP's policies which are going bad.
"A certain senior lawyer who is the President said that his understanding of review means cancel and so if former President Mahama says that we will review a certain policy then what this simply means is that when he comes he will cancel that policy; it is very hard to understand. It is beyond comprehension that lawyer Akufo-Addo says that reviewing a policy means cancellation and then my brother Nana B also interpreting review to mean cancel,” he chided.
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The policy of the NDC has already been make public. Your guess will be as good as mine.
We are not asking for the manifesto for now, at least some policies to tell Ghanaians we serious party and better alternative. Is this also too difficult to ask.
For Ghana to develop and prosper as a developed Nation like the Asian Examples, NDC as a political Party must be extinct from Ghana body politics. It is a political Party with no Leadership, and Vision which seeks to pull Ghana down from the develpomental ladder.
I desist strongly from making tribalistic comments about especially about Party-Politics. But if you are dealing with the NDC as a political party you have to speak the language they best understand. Maybe through that, you can get them to the table to teach them a lesson. I don't want to go too far to draw the attention of the NDC to something critical about their choice of a Running mate for the presidential elections. I guess the Fante/Northern, Northern/Fante and Ewe/Fante options are becoming too notorious. Clearly, the other tribes and especially the Ewes are not taking it too lightly at all. Then, the Volta Region had for ages assumed the position of the World Bank of the NDC, so to speak. If the NDC could go too far to ostensibly expose nepotism in the NPP-Administration in terms of political appointments, then this issue I seek to make in this regard is not at all farfetched to understand right at the doorstep of the NDC. The choice of the Ahoi brother or any other combination in line of the fore-mentioned Options would be like producing a visionless manifesto