The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is accusing elements within the National Security and government of trying to spy on official meetings of the opposition party and doctor recordings “for their spiteful ends”.
It said it is considering all legal options available in order to “halt this phenomenon immediately”.
This comes in the wake of a leaked tape which contains the voice of NDC’s National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo calling on communication officers to take the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, to the cleaners, among other plots.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the NDC says the “statements and attributions contained on the said tape are concocted and false”.
“They are inconsistent with the character and trackrecord of Chairman Ofosu Ampofo and do not reflect the values he has always stood for,” the statement signed by Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of NDC, said.
He stated that “we are not surprised about this act of desperation on the part of the ruling NPP”.
“In the wake of an impending damning expose by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in which key officials of the Akufo-Addo government have been caught on camera receiving bribes in order to compromise government’s so-called fight against illegal mining, the NDC can understand government’s restless desperation to divert public attention with this rather vile and fraudulent audio recording.”
Already, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding the immediate resignation of NDC’s National Chairman and a change in stance of soon-to-be-leader-again John Dramani Mahama over his ‘boot-for-boot’ comments.
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But Sammy Gyamfi’s statement said: “The maliciously depraved and clearly doctored tape has been contrived by some devious elements in the NPP and government to undermine the NDC and its National Chairman.”
A press conference addressed by NPP’s Director of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, over the leakage on Wednesday said the NDC is “weaponising” to become a terrorist organization.
“It is obvious to us that the NPP’s Director of Communications, Hon. Yaw Buabeng Asamoah does not know that he is proceeding on a lonely path, and believing in his own lies because the Ghanaian people do not subscribe to his cock and bull narrative relative to the events of Ayawaso West Wuogon.”
The NDC says it will not be fazed by these “diversionary tactics” of the government “but will stay focused on highlighting the present levels of despondency among the Ghanaian people, occasioned by the bad policies and economic mismanagement of the Akufo-Addo government”.
“The NDC urges all well-meaning Ghanaians to reject the said audio recording and treat all of its content with the contempt it deserves.”
By Emmanuel Kwame Amoh|3news.com|Ghana