The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is asking the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be elated about the Nana Addo–Rawlings meeting if the party believes in consolidating Ghana’s democracy.
This is in response to an NDC group’s allegation that the NPP has a pact with the newly-formed National Democratic Party (NDP) with the sole aim of destroying the ruling party.
The group, Fact Forum, uses Nana Addo’s last week meeting with former President Rawlings and what it says is the flooding of the NDP’s congress grounds by NPP members as proof of the purported pact.
But a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Boabeng Asamoah, has denied the existence of any such agreement.
Mr Asamoah told XYZ News that Nana Addo’s meeting with the NDC founder was purely to bridge gaps between political opponents adding that the NDC, which claims to be the ambassadors of peace should rather be happy instead of condemning it.
“NDC which is shouting peace should be happy that Nana Addo reconciles with Rawlings because if there is any flashpoint or danger in this election, it probably will be between Rawlings and Nana Addo,” he argued.
He said Mr. Rawlings as the leader of the PNDC/NDC regimes was fought by Nana Addo to restore rule of law and constitutional governance and this led to some kind of a bad blood between the two.
Mr. Asamoah insisted that the NPP has no extraordinary relationship with any party as is being speculated.
Source: GhanaWeb
