Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama has criticised the government for ‘rubbishing’ the controversial Agyapadie document.
President Akufo-Addo while addressing the Ghana Report Summit on “Dealing with Misinformation and Disinformation – Election 2024” on Thursday, August 1 2024, described the document as a “fabrication” intended to “mislead and create distrust”
“The recent fabrication, “Agyapadie,” falsely claims a grand scheme by my party to annex state assets. This baseless document is a clear attempt to mislead and create distrust. We must remain vigilant and discerning, verifying information before accepting it as truth,” he said.
However, John Mahama believes that the President’s assertion is not true. The NDC’s flag bearer while addressing Ghanaians during his campaign tour on Saturday indicated that the document cannot be a fabricated one if its prediction is what is happening under the current government.
“Recently, there was an issue about a document called Agyapadie, they said it is fabricated but even if its fabricated, the implementation is not fabricated because everything that is written in that document has been implemented so if really somebody sat and fabricated that document then the person can really read the minds of people,” Mahama explained.
The former President called for President Akufo-Addo’s government to be held accountable for what he says “hardship and crisis and state capture” that Ghanaians have been subjected to.
He hinted that the next NDC government will hold President Akufo-Addo’s government accountable.
“He knows that when I come, I will hold he and his family and his government accountable for what they have done and so they want to push Bawumia to cover their tracks,” Mahama added.
The document which details a strategy aimed at positioning and maintaining Akyem people at commanding height in all spheres of Ghana’s economy has gone viral in recent months on both traditional and social media spaces.
The Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin described it as a total fiction fabricated by those determined for years to create and fan a hate campaign against the Ofori Panin household and Okyeman.
At a recent Akyem Abuakwa State Council meeting, he said “We saw this during the period of J.B Danquah and we’re seeing this now. In and around October 2016, about a few months before the election, the same document known as the ‘Akyem Project’ was in circulation. The focus of that was to fan hatred between Okyeman and Asanteman to undermine the electoral efforts of Nana Akufo-Addo. Unfortunately for them, it came too late to the election.”
“This diabolic plan was revised in 2019. In the year 2020 when the Agyapa business became a political issue, the book suddenly metamorphosed into ‘Agyapadie’” Okyenhene noted in a State Council meeting at Kyebi”.
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