[ 2016-09-23 ]

NDC’s ‘Setting the Records Straight’ is height of propaganda – NPP Communicator
A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
communication team says an event held Thursday by
the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to
counter a similar one by his party exposed the
ruling party's dearth of facts.

John Kuma said instead of engaging the public with
verifiable facts about why the party should be
retained in power ahead of the December elections,
the NDC chose to misinform.

“Clearly what happened there [Setting the
Records Straight event] at best can be described
as propaganda in substance and in form,” Mr.
Kuma said on news analysis programme PM Express on
the Joy News channel (Multi TV), Thursday
evening.

At the “Setting the records straight” press
conference Thursday, Transport Minister, Fifi
Kwetey said his government has had to face
economic difficulties unseen under the NPP
government.

Fifi Kwetey said incompetence of the NPP
government was evidenced by the decision by the
John Kufuor administration to declare the country
a High Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) to cop
assistance from the IMF and World Bank.

Although the NDC says the event is a routine
program by the party in an election year and part
of their political programmes, many have described
it as a response to a lecture two weeks ago by NPP
Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

Dr. Bawumia sought to suggest that the John
Mahama-led government has failed in its first term
and hence does not deserve another term.

Speaking on PM Express, John Kuma said that the
ruling party’s poor efforts at the press
conference deepen NPP’s conviction that the NDC
cannot proffer superior arguments than Dr.
Bawumia’s.

“Clearly if this is the response of the NDC then
they have chosen not to respond to the economic
facts as put out by Dr. Bawumia but they will do
general propaganda,” he told show host Malik
Abass Daabu.

This is a government without shame, John Kuma
said.

Source - Myjoyonline.com

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