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Kennedy Agyapong to NPP: Stop this nonsense of NDC stole our Manifesto ideas

By Michael Eli Dokosi
Hon. Kennedy Agyapong
Hon. Kennedy Agyapong
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It’s not every day that the NDC’s Kofi Adams and the NPP’s Kennedy Agyapong share a common view point but curiously the two are singing from the same hymn sheet.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) functionaries imply their manifesto launch delay is partly because of fears the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will adopt their polices, craftily changing its face and badly implementing it as they did ahead and after the 2012 polls where their free schooling policy of presidential candidate Nana Addo was stolen and implemented in a haphazard way.

But despite delays of their launch themselves, the NDC managed to present highlights of its manifesto at the State House on September 13, 2016 in Accra where candidate John Mahama touched on salient policy proposals contained in the 100-plus page manifesto document which is to unveiled today, September 17, 2016 at Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo regional capital.

The NDC having done this enabled its Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams to tell Joy FM that the NPP has no business crying about their ideas being stolen. “Nobody is copying Nana Addo,” he thundered adding as a Social Democratic Party since 1992, they do not look up to capitalist NPP for policy direction.

 “If today, you have seen the sense in what we have stood for since 1992 and you are coming towards our side then you now want to claim what has been our rights all this while. Nana Addo has never come out with any such good ideas. Nana Addo is talking about one dam one village. He doesn’t see the difference… at least [on Tuesday] the president taught him the difference.”

And it is here that unrestrained Kennedy Agyapong agrees with Mr. Adams when says his party people need to focus on the proper task of wooing voters with credible alternatives rather than crying over NDC stealing their ideas especially when no proof has been produced.

John Boadu, the acting General Secretary of the NPP had wailed to media men a day after Mr. Mahama’s Tuesday highlights.

“You can see now, what they [NDC] call the highlights of their manifesto was just a photocopy of what the New Patriotic Party has been saying and it is amazing that we still have these people talking to the people of this country.”

But Hon. Agyapong countered on Adom TV: “No one has stolen your ideas, you simply have no proof. It’s about time we stopped this child’s play and focus on issues that will move the nation forward. We are in an election year and as an opposition party ready for power, we can’t afford to counter the ruling party over unnecessary issues…most especially when we want power.”

 

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