Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko
A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has described the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a party that “treats false propaganda as a currency, and spreads it like a religion devoutly”.
Such acts, Mr Otchere-Darko noted, contributed to the party’s defeat in the 2016 general election.
“One thing you have to give to the NDC is this: they have time, energy and brains to create, produce and share fake stories. If governance was measured on the scales of propaganda competency, Ghana would have surpassed Singapore by now, considering the time that the NDC have spent in power as compared to all other groups,” he stated in a post on social media.
“In November 2020, the NDC propaganda factory created a fake document called ‘Agyapadeɛ’ – with Okyenhene’s image boldly on the cover and made it seem as if the Ofori Panin Fie of Akyem Abuakwa had a grand evil scheme to steal the gold and other assets of the nation for the stool and its people.
“It got little traction then but did, arguably, some considerable damage in the wider scheme of their electioneering. In mid-2021, the NDC revised the fake Agyapade3 document but it received little traction. By mid-2022, the 3rd edition with embellished updates started circulating but with limited impact. Now, they have gone a notch viral, breaking it into slides,” he stated.
He added that “This fake document is designed to turn as many groups in the country as possible against Okyenhene, Akufo-Addo, Ken Ofori-Atta, Gabby Otchere-Darko and, by extension, the Akyems.”
“Nations are not built with the brick and mortar of deliberate, dubious and dirty divisionism,” he stressed, urging the citizenry to be vigilant about such nefarious, anti-Ghanaian political jibes.
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