Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 3Music Awards, Sadiq Abdulai Abu, has said that the only way the NPP can redeem itself in the eyes of the entertainment industry is to openly admit that it could not fulfill all of its 2016 promises for the creative arts.

According to him, that's the only way the stakeholders of the industry will take the NPP seriously. He mentioned that creative professionals already know that the government is deceiving stakeholders with the new manifesto spelling out that industry players will not tolerate additional promises when the government has not admitted its failure.

"It is disrespectful to promise nine (9) large ultramodern theatres and for you not to have been able to achieve it and then you come back to tell me that you have achieved."

"There should be some level of admission of the truth that you have not been able to fulfill all your promises and make amends." He said while speaking to DJ Advicer on the Ayekoo After Drive Show.

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"Then the creative professionals can decide and say for the first time they [NPP] promised they didn’t make it and there is a certain genuine admission that they haven’t abandoned their mandate in relation to the promise they made. So we decide that let's give them some time”.

He clearly emphasized that the NPP has broken the trust of the creative industry. However, he found it disappointing that out of the eighteen promises, with six focused on the creative industry alone there was none that was delivered.

In 2016, the New Patriotic Party promised to pursue the construction of modern large seating theatres in every regional capital except Accra, beginning with Takoradi, Tamale, and Kumasi. None of the promises were fulfilled.

The NPP, in its 2020 manifesto, has again promised to build three recording studios in the country.