Nana Akufo-Addo is “not suffering from cancer”
and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is not “bothered” if the governing National
Democratic Congress (NDC) keeps paying “surrogates” to wage a “smear campaign”
against the three-time flag bearer of Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the
NPP’s Campaign Coordinator, Mr Peter Mac Manu, has said.Mr Mac Manu’s
comments follow a publication by the Africa Watch Magazine which said Mr
Akufo-Addo was suffering from cancer.
Mr Akufo-Addo himself, while
speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region on
Sunday, August 28 during his campaign, told the crowd that the NDC and President
John Mahama were fabricating lies about him in their quest to retain the
presidency in the 7 December polls.
“First, they said I was a drug
addict; it didn’t work. They said I was sick; it didn’t work. They said I was
too old; it didn’t work. They said I was a hunchback; it didn’t work. They said
I was a dwarf; it didn’t work. They said I was in a wheelchair; it didn’t work.
They said I am a murderer; it didn’t work. They said I would die in June; it
didn’t work. They said I was a dictator; it didn’t work. They said I was
intolerant; it didn’t work. They said I was violent; it didn’t work. They said I
had a secret agenda to destabilise the country; it didn’t work. Now, they say I
have cancer, it will not work.”
Mr Akufo-Addo stressed further that “it
appears the only way the President will get a third term is when I am sick or I
am dead. That is the only ground on which he will get his third
term.”
Buttressing Mr Akufo-Addo’s comment, Mr Mac Manu told Naa Dedei
Tettey in an interview on 12Live on Class91.3FM that “this is a campaign of
political destruction” which incumbent parties employ “when an incumbent
government is losing an election in Africa.”
“…I’ve seen it in Nigerian
where they painted all kinds of gloomy picture about Buhari: Buhari is dead,
Buhari has cancer, Buhari is on a sick bed; the same things they are saying
about Nana Akufo-Addo [now]. I want to tell them, NDC, that whatever they learnt
from President Jonathan which didn’t work there, they should drop it because it
is not going to work in Ghana … Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is not sick of any
cancer. …They want to throw mud at Nana Akufo-Addo, they want to distract us
from the key issues and the key government matters. … This campaign is about the
eight-year rule of the NDC … it is a referendum of the eight-year rule of the
NDC,” Mr Mac Manu added.
“…It’s false and if the NDC will pay people to
spread false news as was in Nigeria in the case of Buhari, fine; they can, but
the Ghanaian voters are discerning like their counterparts in Nigeria, and
history is going to repeat itself here. …We are not bothered…”
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