The governing New Patriotic Party has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress, casting doubts on the ability of the latter to implement the content of a plagiarized manifesto of the ruling party.
Speaking at the party’s manifesto launch at the University of Coast in the Central Region, the General Secretary of NPP, John Boadu said the NDC and its Presidential candidate lack ideas on the developmental needs of the Ghanaian people thus the party’s inability to launch its manifesto though it had claimed earlier that its manifesto was ready.
According to Mr. Boadu, the NPP would not be perturbed should the opposition party copy their manifesto content, stating that it would be unable to implement such ideas as the party neither understands nor believe in them.
“Our opponents announced to the world some two or so months ago that their manifesto was ready and has been presented to their party leadership and yet they have still not been able to launch for the people of this country to see what is in it. Obviously, they are waiting for us to launch our manifesto so they can copy our ideas as usual. Well, we have launched ours today and they are free to copy since they lack ideas. We have no fears as has been shown over and over again, when you appropriate an idea or a project that you don’t fully understand or believe in, you can never implement it properly,” he said.
Enumerating the achievements of the NPP government, Mr. Boadu touted the free Senior High School policy as the biggest social intervention policy in the educational sector since independence.
He also expressed the party’s readiness for re-election reiterating that its re-election manifesto is to consolidate the NPP government’s achievements in its first term in office.
Former president Mahama who is also the Flagbearer of the NDC had indicated in July this year that he had received the party’s 2020 manifesto from the Manifesto Committee inaugurated last year and would present it to the people of Ghana at an appropriate time.
Some members of the NPP had accused the NDC of lacking ideas when the Opposition party, after inaugurating a manifesto Committee, solicited ideas from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), religious bodies and the general public for its 2020 ‘People’s Manifesto’
