The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is ready to match the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) if they took the 2016 campaign onto the path of insults, Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has said.
At a rally in the Central Region, where he has been campaigning, the vice president stated that his party has in the past tolerated insults from the opposition party but warned that will no longer be countenanced.
Henceforth, he warned, the NDC was ready to give a double dose of the insults the NPP will throw at them.
The Vice President's comments come at a time the president has been admonishing all players in the political field to eschew the politics of insults.
But with the new promise by the Vice President Papa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, it appears supporters of the governing party have been given an all clear to return fire if and when they are insulted by a political opponent.
Commenting on the statement by the Vice President, the campaign coordinator of the NDC Kofi Adams told Joy News the Vice president meant that the government has done more work in four years than the NPP did in eight so if the NPP should come with lies, the NDC is ready and better placed to respond to them.
He said "if those lies continue we will respond," he reported the Vice President as saying.
He also added that the "NDC was so focused on the business of governance; now we are going into the campaign and the lies of Bawumia will be exposed", he said according to myjoyonline