NDC’s Assessment of Akufo-Addo Government Padded with Lies – Information Minister

Ghana’s Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has chided the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for its “wrong” analysis of the NPP government’s performance in regards to campaign promise fulfilment.

He said the NDC had fabricated promises in NPP’s 2016 manifesto to arrive at uninformed conclusions.

The NDC in a press briefing Tuesday, 16 June 2020 said the NPP government has only accomplished 14% (86 out of 631) of the campaign promises made prior to the 2016 general elections.

Responding to this, Oppong Nkrumah said the opposition’s assessment was hollow and intellectually dishonest.

He said the NDC padded NPP’s 388 promises outlined in 2016 electoral campaign by adding extra 235 promises to arrive at 631 promises.

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In addition, Mr Oppong Nkrumah insisted that the NPP had achieved 78% of its social contract with Ghanaians and not what the NDC claimed.

“The purpose of seeking to increase the NPP’s number of promises is twofold, as we enter the 2020 conversation, one of the narratives they seek to carve is a narrative of dishonesty. In order to give life or credence to that narrative.

“They have to create scenarios that if indeed we made 388 promises, they will find ways of adding 235 and in the end claim that we have been dishonest. What they seek to downplay our achievement as a country and as a people.

 “When you compare their first term of four years. Promises made and promises that have fulfilled, to where we and yet to complete our four years, the results are staggering” he added.

He said the government had provided evidence of its performance on www.delivery.gov.gh which was announced on the very day, the Vice president did the presentation.