The Executive Director of Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah has lashed out at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for postponing its manifesto launch from August 31 to September 7.
The NDC on Friday, August 28, 2020 in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah announced that the party’s Functional Executive Committee at a meeting held on Thursday, August 27, 2020 rescheduled the date for its manifesto launch which was scheduled to take place on August 31 to September 7.
The decision, the statement explained, is to give room for the approval of the policy principles and strategies promised in ‘The People’s Manifesto’.
But reacting to the postponement, Sulemana Braimah accused the party of dedicating its time to scrutinizing and criticizing the manifesto of its opponent but struggling to launch its manifesto.
Mr. Sulemana Braimah who is clearly not happy with the NDC’s decision to postpone the launch of ‘The People’s Manifesto’ said the party can even decide to postpone the launch of its manifesto to the day after the December elections.
“Talk is Cheap: You have all the time to scrutinize and criticise other’s Manifesto but struggling to put yours out. U can even wait and launch it on December 8,” he stated in a post on Facebook.
This is not the first time Mr. Braimah is criticizing the NDC on matters relating to preparedness for the December elections.
On August 23, he said “Dear NDC, you elected your flagbearer long before the NPP did, yet you waited till NPP announced its running mate before you did. Again, you set a manifesto committee and waited till the NPP out doored its manifesto and we are still waiting for yours. Why are you never first? OK, tò follow the trend and in fairness, you may wait for the NPP to win the elections first.”
At the NPP manifesto launch in Cape Coast, President Akufo-Addo criticized the NDC and its flag bearer for not taking the lead in preparing for the December elections despite the fact that they are in opposition. The President wondered “what will happen the day they have a government to run as well.”
The General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu at same event also accused the opposition party of deliberately delaying its manifesto launch in order to copy policy ideas from the NPP’s manifesto.
