In his response, Mr. Aboagye argued that, if the NDC’s manifesto contained anything of significance, Ghanaians would have discussed it regardless of the NPP’s media encounter held the day after the NDC’s manifesto launch.

In a social media post, Aboagye remarked, “Very petty. If your manifesto is empty, it’s empty. No one needs to do anything to overshadow it. If it’s a serious manifesto, Ghanaians would discuss it for years. Who takes a manifesto that promises to keep nightclubs open 24 hours seriously? Who takes a manifesto that suggests people should queue at 2 am for passports seriously? Or one that proposes having three chief directors at a ministry to run shifts?

“When did you announce your manifesto launch? Was it your intention to do so a week after we launched ours to overshadow it? You’ve been an opposition leader for eight years, and it’s been over a year and a half since Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was elected. Yet, you waited for him to announce the date for his manifesto launch, then immediately decided to hold yours six days after. Was it your idea to overshadow his launch?

“Of course, we knew you wanted to copy his manifesto, but it’s now clear your second strategy was to overshadow his launch. You chose to campaign in Accra today, knowing Dr. Bawumia was campaigning there yesterday. Are you in Accra today to overshadow the campaign he did yesterday? Is that your strategy?

“Instead of using your time to explain your lifeless ideas, you’re here complaining about something trivial. Let’s stop being petty and get serious.”

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Mr. Aboagye disclosing the accomplishments of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in recent years, said their achievements surpass those of previous administrations.

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, April 9, Mr. Aboagye took exception to Mahama’s remarks, stressing the NPP government’s successes, such as the distribution of tablets to senior high school students.

He noted that despite the skepticism from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the distribution has commenced as promised.

Mr. Aboagye therefore expressed disappointment in Mahama’s apparent resentment towards the policy and its beneficiaries.

“The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party announced that we, the New Patriotic Party, were going to distribute tablets to students of senior high schools in this country. The NDC in their usual impossibility character and posture came out to radicalise this announcement, hoping it will never come to reality.”

“But on the heels of our hard-working Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the policy was launched, and distribution, as we speak, has started. Isn’t it unfortunate that the former president and the NDC, within the full-blown hypocritical parades, came to display their bitterness towards a policy and especially its beneficiaries who are all Ghanaians of this country?”

“The incompetent former president, after promising to roll out and distribute tablets across this country and failing to implement this promise, comes to question the priority of the government to do the exact thing that he promised some 7 years ago and could not deliver.”

The National Youth Organizer of NPP, Salam Mustapha, also criticized Mahama’s proposal to separate the Ministry of Youth from sports.

Mr. Mustapha argued that this would not solve the issue of youth unemployment and showed a lack of understanding of the complexities of the problem.

He questioned Mahama’s intentions, given his previous promise to reduce the number of ministries.

“His proposed solution to youth unemployment by decoupling the Ministry of Youth and Sports is not only misguided, but it also highlights his lack of understanding of the complexities of the issue. For the avoidance of doubt, sports is one of the means to develop young people, just like creative art.”

“How then can you take away the very critical vehicle to the Ministry and claim to be solving the problem? Is it the same John Mahama who is promising to reduce the number of ministries now promising to create more?”

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According to him, it is apparent the former President has a sinister agenda against the beneficiaries of free SHS a reason he Is on an attack spree against the policy.

He questioned the rationale for the consistent attacks by John Mahama.

This Mr. Aboagye said Mr. Mahama is bitter because Ghanaians have now come to appreciate the fact that he has no credibility.

He made the comments at a press briefing by the campaign communications bureau.

Mr. Aboagye also questioned the sudden u-turn of the NDC’s flagbearer over the recent distribution of free tablets to students in Senior High Schools (SHS).

He wondered whether it was a ploy by Mr. Mahama to woo to students ahead of the December general elections.

Mr. Aboagye has therefore called on the former President to quit the deliberate attacks against the Free SHS policy .

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