New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) aspiring flagbearer for the 2012 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been described by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a man with no sense of shame.

The ruling party has slashed into pieces, the defeated 2008/9 NPP presidential candidate for attempting to draw it into a political dogfight. According to the NDC, the diversionary tactics by the NPP flagbearership contestant to use the NDC as a political pole to hang the opposition NPP’s dwindling fortunes has fallen flat on its face.

At a press conference yesterday, in Accra, addressed by NDC Communications Director, James Asante, to react to Nana Akufo-Addo’s tantrums at the launch of his flagbearership campaign recently, the ruling party made it clear that it has been given the mandate by the good and discerning people of this country to govern “and we wish to assure them [NPP] that we shall not be distracted by the ugly noises of a bruised and tainted elephant.”

Mr. Asante indicted that all that Nana Akufo-Addo spewed out were noting but lies and blatant falsehoods. “The NDC believes that, Nana Akufo-Addo in speaking about the economy, waded himself and the NPP into uncharted waters,” he pointed out, saying that the NDC expects Nana Akufo-Addo to give a better insight into the economy than warping himself in voodoo analysis.

According to him, when the NDC took over power, the World Bank provided documentary proof of the economy, adding that “We wonder how one could grow an economy by registering over 70% of GDP and at the same time run a deficit of same at over 15%. On the other hand, Akufo-Addo and his NPP failed to tell the people of Ghana what they used the over $750million Eurobond for.

The NDC communications director said “You invest in bonds to generate the necessary fund in the markets to support investment. However, in the case of NPP, they disingenuously used the invested funds to pay salaries of workers.” James Asante averred that, “This is an obvious indication of the inability of the NPP administration to generate the required revenue to pay salaries and wages of the Ghanaian workers.”

James Asante said the kind of economic prescription touted by the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo is the one which allows for the diversion of funds from the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Recovering Levy to line the pockets of propaganda chiefs. “We know the Akufo-Addos of the NPP have no sense of shame when a specified fund meant to address a serious fiscal position is diverted into private pockets in the name of disseminating party propaganda,” he said.