By Julian Owusu Abedi

The Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Awuku, speaking for and on behalf of his party has rubbished the comments made by one of the errands boy at the presidency, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, who is on record to have ridiculed the much praised “Listening Campaign” being embarked on by the standard bearer of the NPP… saying “Nobody will vote for Nana Addo in 2012”.

Sammy Awuku in his reactions to Nii Lantey’s comments said, its important and instructive to recognize that its very illogical, shallow thinking and daft on the part of anyone who says that the candidate who had 49% popular votes in the last elections in 2008 will not get a single vote come 2012 general lections. “It shows clearly that Vanderpuye is not abreast with modern trends in politics and may still be living in his colonial mentality”, he added.

In an exclusive interview with this paper, the dep. communications director said, its very obvious that the presidential errands boy and the whole presidency has lost touch with the Ghanaian people because if indeed they were, they would have realized that the government’s harsh economic decisions and policies were hitting the ordinary people so hard and has further reduced Ghanaians to orphans and second class citizens in their own country.

According to the NPP, the nationwide“Listening Campaign” which started in the Eastern Region on July 4, 2011 will give their candidate the opportunity to listen at first hand to the concerns and suggestions of the citizenry to help him formulate the appropriate policies and programmes to address such concerns.

In a quick response to a rather audacious rhetorical question ‘Who Is Nana Addo’ as posed by Vanderpuye when he was speaking in an interview onAsempaFM, a radio station in Accra days after the NDC’s Delegates’ Congress which saw the re-election of President Mills as the party’s flagbearer for the 2012 elections, Sammy said, Nana Addo is someone who for the past thirty five years has laid down his life for public service.

Again he said, Nana is someone who sees public service as a duty and a call and is ever ready to respond given half the chance. He strongly believes that every young Ghanaian should be able to have a decent job, earn decent money and should be able to afford anything and everything he wants to have and that is what forms the crust and the basis for the property owning democracy ideology of the NPP.

He continued that, “Nana believes that once the individual is empowered, trained with skill and introduced to opportunities, the individual can take advantage of it and can tap into his own potential because we do not believe in the ‘pull him down’ attitude of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and that Nana is largely of the view that a free society which can not protect the few who are poor will obviously not be able to protect the rich amongst us”…and by the way where was pro. Mills when Nana was on the streets fighting for the peoples’ liberty and freedom which we all enjoy now, he asked.

S Sammy Awuku –dep. Communications director(NPP)