- AKUFO-ADDO DID NOT DECLARE WAR IN 2012

PRESS STATEMENT

AKUFO-ADDO DID NOT DECLARE WAR IN 2012

The Japan Chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ghana’s largest opposition party, has been compelled to set the records right by wading into the raging controversy and public debate on recent pronouncements by the 2012 NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that ‘All-Die-Be-Die,’ when he met party faithful in Koforidua in the Eastern Region recently.

NPP-Japan notes with grave concern the extent to which this statement has been blown out of proportion by party members and youth activists of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

We would like to make it clear that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been a lover of peace and will not take delight in beating war drums hence his famous All-Die-Be-Die statement sought to urge fellow Kukrududites and the entire Elephant family at large to work harder than they did in 2008 when we only needed about 5% votes to win power.

The pronouncement of All-Die-Be-Die meant that the NDC has cheated us for far too long therefore it was high time NPP party members woke up from their snooze to resist any attempt by the NDC to intimidate us and as a matter of fact, a recipe to abuse incumbency.

In fact, it is very heart-bleeding and nerve-racking to say the least that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo wants to go to war as a result of All-Die-Be-Die.

We are fully convinced that our Presidential Candidate by that statement was only reiterating the call on party members to be extra alert come 2012 when Ghanaians go to the polls again. This is because the NDC has a more violent and chequered background judging from how it was formed.

Since the NDC was capable of doing anything at all to win power, Nana Addo only cautioned against any of this sort of Mafia rigging tactics and was not threatening war.

They know where to conjure figures to win elections hence our flagbearer was sending a warning signal.

Nana Addo does not want Ghana dead at all therefore it is only worthwhile that we guard against and resist any attempt to change the will of the people through that transparent Ballot Box as we have done since 1992.

To conclude we would like to tell the NDC that it should focus on what matters to better the lots of Ghanaians rather than resorting to make cheap political capitals out of these statements.

This kind of vile propaganda will not put food on the table of the poor. It will not provide potable water for less-endowed communities—it will not curb the schools-under-trees-syndrome neither will it bring electricity supply to our villages.