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'NDC has made me their campaign - Akufo-Addo
Speaking at a rally in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region Sunday night, Nana-Akufo said instead of the president telling Ghanaians what he has been able to achieve since assuming office, he has made him the centre of his campaign with attacks and innuendos.
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The president has labelled the NPP flagbearer as "divisive," "intolerant" and a "dictator" during his tour of the Western and Northern Regions.
He has subsequently come under criticisms for making Akufo-Addo the centre of his campaign message. But a campaign spokeswoman, Joyce Bawa Mogtari said it was Akufo-Addo who drew the first blood by labelling the president as incompetent.
The NPP says it offers no apology for calling the president as "incompetent," pointing to his economic management.
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However, speaking at a rally in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region Sunday night, Nana-Akufo said instead of the president telling Ghanaians what he has been able to achieve since assuming office, he has made him the centre of his campaign with attacks and innuendos.
He said: "The president and those who speak for him are today in a difficult situation in Ghana. They say they want to have a third time in office. but instead of telling us of all the things they promise they were going to do, they been able to do it so we should allow them a third time, they can't do that.
"Let me tell us a few of the promises he made. One time premium for the NHIS (National Health Insurance Scheme), not only did that promise not materialised, but they have collapsed the NHIS.
"He told he was going to build 200 hundred community day senior high school. According to his Finance Minister he's been able to build nine.
"He told us in 2012 that Dumsor (power crisis) will be over in 2013, we are in 2016 and Dumsor is still with us in Ghana.
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"He travelled here in the northern last week and not once did he talk about SADA (Savanna Accelerated Development Authority) because SADA has become a monumental failure."
"So because of this , the president has made me his campaign. I am his campaign today in Ghana," he said to loud cheers from the rally.
According to the NPP leader, attacks on him from the president is going to go higher because of defeat "stares him in the face."
"I am saying to you, as defeat stares him in the face, the language against me is going to go higher and higher and higher.
"Because it is clear that the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians today are going to say to John Mahama 'thank you bye bye.'"
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"In the meantime, the language against me is going to continue," he stressed.
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