Beware of NDC lies, divisive tricks — NPP group

Pillars for Ghana’s Forward Movement, a group of New Patriotic Party (NPP) activists, have called on Ghanaians to be wary of what it termed the lies, threats and divisive tricks of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during this electioneering.
It said because the NDC had realised that it would lose the election due to the good track record and leadership of the NPP, it had resorted to such unorthodox tactics.
Addressing the press in Accra, the leading member of the group, Nii Titus Glover, said the NDC flag bearer, Professor John Evans Atta Mills; his running mate, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and the NDC founder, former President J. J. Rawlings, were those leading the use of lies and divisive tricks.
“Prof. Mills in a desperate bid for votes, exhibited a shocking absence of political memory when he sought to use tribalism and enthnocentrism in the Central Region”, he said.
Mr Glover said at Mumford in the Central Region, Prof. Mills falsely stated that because President J. A. Kufuor was an Ashanti that was why “he does not care for the coastal fisher-folk and has built the best cold store in Kumasi”.
He said unfortunately, records show that it was the NDC administration that sold all the state-owned cold stores in the country to private individuals, including the ones in Central Region.
He said the NDC flag bearer also started beating war drums earlier in the year and prophesying that there would be mayhem in Ghana like what happened in Kenya.
Nii Glover alleged that just this week while on his campaign trail in the Volta Region, the former President justified coups by claiming that because the laws stated that when an individual commits a crime he or she should be arrested, he was also calling on the police and the military to remove a government that was bad.
He said again at a rally in the Volta Region, the former President accused the Kufuor administration of dismissing people from the Ghana Armed Forces, without providing any specific names or cases to back up his baseless allegations.
He said the former President was also alleged to have called former security bosses to his residence to discuss security situation in the country.
He described that as ironical because it was the same former President who complained bitterly about the move to deploy military and police personnel to prevent violence and disturbances on election day.
Nii Glover said if the NDC was concerned about election violence why would they complain bitterly about legitimate attempts to empower security personnel to man the polling day?
Mr Abu Gyinakpo, a member of the group, said it was worrying that Mr Mahama had suggested that if Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the NPP flag bearer, knew how to raise funds, he should do that to raise funds to defray the debt of the Volta River Authority (VRA) instead of investing $ 1 billion in the Northern Development Fund.
He said such utterances were a clear indication that the NDC after eight years in power failed to develop the area and was afraid of the concrete moves by the current NPP administration and what the next one would do for the three northern regions.
He added that the NPP would continue to fulfil its promise of good governance, rule of law, economic and infrastructure development and support for the vulnerable and expressed the hope that Ghanaians would vote for Nana Akufo-Addo.