Yaw Osafo Maafo, a member of the Akufo-Addo For President '08 campaign team is urging Ghanaians to be wary of the opposition National Democratic Congress's campaign messages that claim the party now believes in integrity and protection of human dignity, insisting that the party can not hide its true colours.

"Once a wolf, always a wolf,” Osafo-Maafo said, explaining, “no matter how hard the wolf tries to be like sheep, it can not but will still remain a wolf through out its lifetime and so it is with the NDC party”. He maintained that the NDC has not changed and can never change irrespective of who has been made a figurehead leader.

The former Education Minister cautioned: “The NDC is still a party full of deceptive people and ideologies; they are mean, selfish and greedy. This is a fact and no one can change that irrespective of who now leads them.

“They are now behaving as holy saints but trust me, they will get on you immediately you vote them into power again”, he warned, adding “we are now discerning enough to know their tricks and cunning ways. This country needs peace and we urgently need to consolidate it by retaining the NPP government by giving the mandate to Nana Addo and his running mate Mahamudu Bawumiah to take us from where President Kufuor will end”.

The Akim Oda MP was addressing a mammoth crowd at Bayerebebon No.5, Ahyeresu, and Foase Abuakwah among other towns and villages in the Atwima Mponua, Kwanwoma and Nwabiagya constituencies in the Ashanti region on the third day of Nana Akufo-Addo’s campaign tour of the region.

According to Mr Osafo-Maafo, the NDC was still controlled and governed by former President Jerry Rawlings “whose political trade mark is autocracy, divide and rule, tribalism and nepotism.” He described the pair of Nana Addo and Dr. Bawumiah as potent 'Poly-technocrat ordained by God to lead the country to achieve political and socio-economic emancipation” and urged all to massively throw their weight behind them and the party to win power come December.

Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, former Presidential candidate, observed that the December elections are about the future development of the nation, and therefore tasked all NPP supporters and sympathisers to intensify their campaign to ensure a resounding victory.

At Nyinahin, the presidential candidate paid a courtesy call on the chief of Nyinahin, Nana Amanpene Boateng Twum II, and reiterated his promise to establish the first ever cocoa farmer pension scheme in the country when elected President of this country to put an end to poverty and insecurity amongst retired cocoa farmers, and accord them a secure and comfortable future even after they retire.

“Nana Akufo-Addo’s government will utilise the high global price of cocoa and the dramatic increase in the productivity and profitability of the sector over the past eight years to ensure that today’s prosperity is used to provide a brighter future for Ghana’s millions of cocoa farmers and their dependents”, he told the packed crowd who were mostly farmers.

Other members of the campaign team including Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, Alan Kyerematen, Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko and others also addressed the people on the need to vote for the NPP to retain power in December.