NDC is more comforting to CPP than NPP

The NDC is a more national and comforting option for all genuine and sober Nkrumaists than the NPP, the NDC declared on Monday.

It said "no Nkrumaist could forget so soon the abuse of democracy by predecessors of the NPP in banning the CPP and obliterating Nkrumaism before being able to win power in 1969. A statement signed by Mr Vincent Asiseh, NDC Press Secretary, said it was therefore wishful for Mr John Agyekum Kufuor to assume that the 6.8 per cent of votes achieved by the leaders of the five smaller parties belong to him "automatically" by their pledge of support for him.

"It is instructive that these people had already voted against Mr Kufuor once - in the December 7 election and could repeat it on December 28."

The statement described as "misguided" calls by Mr John A. Kufuor for Professor John Atta Mills to concede defeat in the December 7 elections and spare the nation a run-off at the end of the month.

The statement said: "Mr Kufuor should know better and contend with the hard fact that 51.65 per cent of the electorate voted against a Kufuor presidency. It is therefore presumptuous of him to give the impression that he has more or less won the presidency".

It said a programme on Radio GAR - "Good Morning Accra" - on Monday December 18 said it all when 18 out of the 22 callers who were presumably CPP members condemned the call by their party's leadership to support the NPP.

He said the overwhelming majority of respondents insisted that supporting the NPP would spell the doom of the CPP and the much revered Nkrumaist tradition. "We believe this ratio is reflective of the view of the party's supporters all over Ghana and which will manifest in the voting pattern on December 28," the statement added.