Unlike the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), does not have a message to convince or better the lives of the electorate, Isaac Adongo has asserted.
The Bolgatanga Central MP spoke to Kwame Dwomoh-Agyemang, Monday, September 2, 2024, on the Class Morning Show on Class 91.3 FM.
Mr. Adongo refuted the notion the NDC has copied the NPP’s campaign style.
“Prof Mills started door-to-door in our country. Where was NPP then? So how can we go back to our roots and you say we are copying?” he asked. “H.E. John Evans Atta Mills, together with H.E. John Dramani Mahama, started door-to-door campaigns.”
The NDC lawmaker said the NPP “claimed they were not going to do door-to-door campaigns because they were not sure people would respond to their flagbearer. So they said they were going to do personalised campaigns and then when they started spending money on people, giving people money to wear their t-shirts, and they saw that people came because of the money, they suddenly started doing mass campaigns. So who’s copying who?”
Mr. Adongo observed the same copycat syndrome was demonstrated by “what recently happened between” the NPP’s campaign spokesperson Miracles Aboagye and the NDC’s National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi.
“You saw it. Everybody knows who is copying,” he stressed, charging: “They [NPP] just don’t have a message.”
The Bolgatanga Central MP said: “You can see how our manifesto resonates with the people. If you ask them their own people don’t remember what is in their manifesto.”
The NDC’s manifesto, he noted, was not to “wake up someone who’s pretending to be sleeping”.
“That manifesto is not to convince the NPP man who simply does not want to be convinced. It is to convince the generality of Ghanaians,” he explained. “It is to solve the problems they [NPP] have created for this country. It is to refix and reset this country.”
Mr. Adongo argued the views of the NPP concerning the NDC manifesto, with the 24-hour economic policy being a chief item, “is not the [important] issue. The issue is whether or not Ghanaians believe the policy will bring a change in their lives.”
Source: classfmonline.com
