The Today newspaper can state on authority that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo was conspicuously missing at yesterday’s historic launch of commercial oil find at Princes Town in the Western region.

However, it has emerged from probing that Nana Akufo-Addo was virtually snubbed by the Mils-led administration although other top political wigs were invited to the event. They include former Presidents Rawlings and Kufuor; Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, the CPP presidential candidate in 2008, Alhaji Ramadan who represented the PNC and many others.

The findings were corroborated by the office of the NPP presidential candidate when an official told the Today newspaper that Nana Addo was not officially invited by the ruling party to participate in the historic event. According to Herbert Krapah, an aide of Nana Addo, “ he was never invited by government to participate in this historic national programme. I just don’t know why the Atta Mills-led NDC government resolved to leave him out of this event.”

Mr. Krapah was worried that such deliberate actions will deepen the political wedge between the two political parties and advised that on such occasions, the interest of the nation should be paramount devoid of pettiness, and therefore should not be used to sideline members of the opposition. “I received a number of calls from well-wishers and sympathizers of the NPP who wanted to know if Nana Akufo-Addo would be there but I told them that he was never invited so there was no way he could attend the national function,” Mr. Krapah told the Today newspaper in a telephone interview.