The Director of Communications of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoah says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants to plagiarise the NPP manifesto for the upcoming elections. 

He hinged his argument on the fact that the NDC had continually postponed its manifesto launch from August to September, possibly to to copy policies from the NPP manifesto.

Mr Buaben Asamoah, who was addressing a press conference in Accra on Monday afternoon, August 31, 2020, said the deliberate decision by the NDC to postpone its manifesto launch was a clear indication that the party did not have anything better to offer the Ghanaian people.

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The NPP launched its manifesto for the 2020 general elections on August 22, 2020, at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in the Central Region.

However, its main contender for the 2020 general elections, the NDC, had set Monday, August 31, 2020, as the date for the launching of its manifesto. This was announced by the party’s National Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi on August 24, 2020.

But the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, in a statement said the party had set Monday, September 7, 2020, as the date for the launch of the party’s manifesto in Accra for the December 2020 general elections.

According to Mr Asiedu-Nketiah, the decision to postpone the launch to September 7, “is to enable the National Executive Committee and the Council of Elders to approve the policy principles and strategies promised in the Manifesto."