Mr Peter Mac Manu is the Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party in Ghana
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday October 23, 2008
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of engaging in what it calls “dirty propaganda to deceive the electorate to vote for them”
“In the last week, the NDC campaign of lies has reached new height. It appears that lies are the only weapons left for them. They are throwing mud at everybody and hoping that Ghanaians will believe something,” Peter Mac Manu, NPP National Chairman said yesterday.
Speaking at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra to react to what it calls “NDC campaign of lies”, Mr. Mac Manu said “Ghanaians want a campaign that will address the important issues in their lives rather than insults and lies about opponents”.
He said currently there is a document in circulation by the NDC purporting to be minutes of an NPP meeting during which the ruling party laid out the details of how they (NPP) plan to rig the December poll in collaboration with the Electoral Commission.
“This document that the NDC is circulating has never been produced by the NPP. This allegation forms part of the NDC plan to discredit the EC and the country’s democratic process”.
“The NDC is doing this ahead of the election so that when they lose and the NPP wins, they can use that as a basis to contest the result on the streets but the plan will fail”.
Mr. Mac Manu said “the NPP does not need to rig elections to win. While in opposition, despite being outspent, intimidated and having an Electoral Commission whose membership had been determined by the NDC government, we won the 2000 election”.
He also said the NDC had been circulating a tract purporting to be a list of bank accounts of prominent NPP members at Prudential Bank and dismissed it as having “no basis in fact” and as “pure fabrication”.
“I am asking the Bank of Ghana and the Prudential Bank to formally investigate and expose the NDC lies for what they are.”
Mr. Mac Manu further dismissed rumors that some NPP members are going about purchasing voter registration cards saying “ when leaders of a national party like the NDC make it a deliberate policy to spread lies about others without regard for facts, they do our country great harm”.
He said the pro- NDC media allegation that President Kufuor owes some Kuwaitis billions of dollars “is so scandalous that the normally serene and forgiving President is threatening to go to court for redress if those allegations are not with drawn within tow weeks and the NPP fully support President Kufuor on this issue”
He also said the President Kufuor’s statement at a recent rally at Madina, Accra where he sought to find out who was leading the NDC campaign was taken out of contest by the NDC saying “the President made a harmless statement but because the NDC is desperate they are imputing all sorts of meanings to it”
On Nana Akufo- Addo’s news conference on Monday to analyze the global financial crisis, Mr. Mac Manu said “the NDC’s reaction to that news conference does not serve our country well. They are just crying wolf”.
Our Presidential candidate has stood up to be counted even when it was dangerous to do so. He has never posed as a President. He came to address issues of serious concern and that for me is an exhibition of his leadership qualities”.
He said the time has come for Ex-President Rawlings to render an unqualified apology to the people of the Central Region for allegedly suggesting that the NPP won the 2004 election in the region because President Kufuor bribed the people there”.
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