By: Kekeli K. Blamey
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been sternly warned that they cannot use bullying tactics to win political power on December 7.
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka Napo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate, who sounded the caution, stated emphatically that the NPP and its members can’t be intimidated.
“If the NDC is planning to use rough tactics, threats and intimidation to coerce us to win the impending polls, then they should revise their notes because it will not work.
“The NPP loves peace and progress but nobody should take our leniency to be our weakness. Any form of threat by the NDC to win power will fall,” Napo told a crowd during his campaign tour.
Campaigning in the evening at Abira in the Kwabre East Constituency in Ashanti Region, he said the NPP government is committed to ensuring a free and fair election.
According to him, the ruling NPP believes that they would convincingly win the presidential and parliamentary polls with their positive records in government and nothing else.
In this regard, Dr. Prempeh announced that the NPP would continue to approach the election with a campaign of ideas for the discerning electorate to cast their ballot for them.
He threw an open challenge to the NDC and their leader, John Mahama, to also challenge the NPP with campaign of ideas and stop issuing threats to put fear in the people.
“The NDC has been in political office before so I’m expecting them to campaign on their records just as myself and our presidential candidate, Dr. Bawumia, is doing,” he stated.
According to Napo, it’s because the NDC and John Mahama failed woefully to perform in political office that’s why they are afraid to campaign on their records.
Napo said blatant lies and threats would not help the NDC to win the elections, adding that defeat is staring NDC in the face.
He urged the citizenry to vote massively for Dr. Bawumia and all the NPP parliamentary candidates so that the gains chalked by the present administration would be sustained.
