A leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has lashed out at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for what he considers as a “propangandist” strategy to use his party’s founder to gain sympathy votes.
According to Kwame Jantuah, NDC’s use of Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s voice in one of its campaign advertisements is reprehensible and an affront to Jerry John Rawlings, the living founder of the ruling party.
“It is wrong and I hope the NDC will desist from it,” he said on TV3’s live broadcast of CPP’s 2016 manifesto launch on Saturday. In a latest campaign advertisement of the ruling NDC, Kwame Nkrumah’s voice – believed to be one of the speeches he delivered in the post-colonial era – is heard lashing out at the then opposition.
“Why will you use Nkrumah’s voice?” Mr Jantuah wondered.
“That is even an insult to your party.” Kwame Nkrumah’s statue has been erected at the newly constructed Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra He said what the NDC should be doing is making use of its living founder.
“Don’t use another party’s founder,” he admonished. He said the move by the NDC smacks of inadequacy ahead of the December 7 elections “because they have no basis or foundation to stand on and they need the CPP”.
“Did Nkrumah and CPP ever accept the IMF? Even with the Akosombo Dam, did we not put our own $500 million into it? Did Nkrumah and CPP fail to plan?”
He called on the NDC to rather ride on their claim of infrastructural development under President John Mahama.
Source: 3news
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This is just a share enviness from certain fanti mafia trying hard to say that we the ewes don't have sence but when it is fanti they are the best.were they the only people invited by Jerry at Burma camp meetings
charley give me a brake, if this is true then Ghanaian has future and indeed no leader. reflect and see
This is not fair to the party founder
The message is clear. They cannot ignore their founder for another. The NDC has lost their course and principles of probity accountability and social justice.
This man is an NPP mole. That voice exposed the kind of persons in the NPP tradition hence he's talking nothing from his top. Why didn't he stop the NDC government from making Nkrumah's birthday a founder's day? Tweeeeeeaaaa! There are psychiatric hospitals in every home these days. #RetireNana@72 #Agenda2020 #NoAbabas3 #UsainBoltVictory #JMTOASO
this is not a national issue, it is purely party agenda so NDC cannot use Nkrumah's voice in their advertisement to score cheap political goal. politically, Nkrumah belongs to the cpp so ndc must use their founder and leave Nkrumah alone. if they don't believe in their own party values then they must join the cpp.
Ndc is not for jj as npp is for nana addo nde is a party bigger than any one
They have no identity...Kuffour hit the nail on its head
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE CALL ME ON 0547616812. IS NOT A CRIME FOR NDC TO USE THE VIOCE OF KWAME NKRUMAH BECAUSE HE IS THE FATHER TO ALL PARTY SO GHANIANS WE SHOULDN'T BE DEBATING ON THIS.
Asiedu Nketia and John Mahama have sacked Rawlings from Ndc. They replaced him with Nkrumah.