The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is to revolve all its campaign message around the success story of the Kufuor Administration and the vision of its flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
According to the party, Ghanaians are discerning enough and have come to the realisation that the NDC only makes empty promises they cannot fulfil just to win the sympathy of voters.
Nana Akomea, the newly appointed Director of Communications for the NPP and its 2012 Campaign, who was speaking to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Accra, said the campaign message would also include the philosophy of the party to ensure that NPP members across the country were motivated to police the ballot to avoid the situation where the will of the people was short-changed.
Asked why Ghanaians still voted the NPP out in spite of the good works of the Kufuor Administration, he said although the NDC was able to lie and offer promises it could not fulfil, it was able to win with the slimmest margin ever in the history of African elections.
According to Nana Akomea, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikoi South and Parliamentary Ranking Member for Communications, because the NDC cannot pinpoint a single major policy or programme that it has undertaken to bring relief to the people of Ghana, it is still resorting to propaganda as its major tool.
He said ironically, it was not only ordinary Ghanaians who were complaining about the ineffectiveness of and the hardship that the Mills Administration was taking them through, but leading members of the NDC, including the founder of the party, former President JJ Rawlings, who have on a myriad of occasions complained bitterly about the bad leadership style of President Mills.
He said judging from unfolding events, the Mills Administration would not be able to and was not capable of undertaking any significant programme that would ameliorate the suffering and pain brought about by the administration in the remaining two years.
Nana Akomea said it was only those who did not have a good and successful story to tell who believed that doing propaganda, putting spins on unnecessary issues against their opponents was the best weapon to use.
“In the last two years Ghanaians have witnessed what the NDC administration, led by President J.E.A. Mills, is made of and ... Ghanaians are yearning for a better alternative. Historically, we have been accused of being weak in propaganda. We will never use propaganda, we will tell our story,” he added.
He said thankfully the amended NPP Constitution had provided for the position of communication officers at the national, regional and constituency levels who would constantly propagate the achievements of the past NPP government and what a government led by Nana Akufo-Addo would provide for them.
Nana Akomea noted that with the appointment of the communication officers at the regional and constituency levels the party would be able to counteract the lies and dirty propaganda of the NDC and set all records straight.
Last Monday, the NPP appointed Nana Akomea as the Director of Communications for the NPP and its 2012 Campaign. He would be assisted by five Deputy Directors of Communications.
A statement signed by the General Secretary of the NPP, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, said the party had also made some appointments in addition to the current Deputy Director of Communications, Mr Curtis Perry Kwabla Okudzeto.
The additional deputy directors are Messrs John Boadu, Yaw Asamoah Buabeng, Sammy Awuku and
Ms Olivia Quartey.
It said Messrs Mustapha Hamid and Herbert Krapa remained Spokesperson and Press Secretary respectively at the office of the Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo.
The statement said other members of the Communications Directorate include former NPP General Secretary Nana Ohene Ntow, Ms Ursula Owusu, Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, Mr Frank Agyekum, Ms Frances Essiam, Mr Abu Jinapor, Mr John Kumah, Mr Yaw Adomako Baafi, Mr Titus Glover and Mr Dominic Nitiwul, MP for Bimbila.
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