Governing NPP denies training thugs to disrupt 2020 elections

The governing New Patriotic Party ( NPP ) has denied training thugs to disrupt next year’s general election.

This comes days after NDC flagbearer John Mahama alleged that the NPP is planning to wreak havoc and plunge the country into chaos during the 2020 elections.

According to the former President, government is training thugs at Asutuare to disrupt the elections, a situation he described as worrying.

But Director of communications of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa says Mr Mahama comes to the debate about electoral violence far too late to be taken serious.

In a statement, Mr. Buabeng Asamoa said: “The NPP emphatically denies any knowledge or participation in any wild claim of ‘military training’ to disrupt the upcoming elections in 2020.

Indeed, the former President comes to the debate about electoral violence far too late to be taken serious. After gleefully declaring his higher credentials in delivering election violence and threatening to match the NPP “boot for boot”, Candidate Mahama went to sleep with a false presentation to the diplomatic community about the noble country he seeks to lead. He made absolutely no input into the public, executive, legislative and political leadership processes that led to the establishment of the Short Commission, the National Peace Council moderated bi-party dialogue and the passage of an Act of Parliament against politically related violence”.

He further stated that “For the attention of Candidate Mahama, the nation has moved beyond scare tactics about election violence. If he has any substance, he should resort to the rule of law and use the institutions available. We also admonish Mahama and his followers not to resort to cooking up and spreading false materials on social media as they have done in recent times in their attempt to mislead the good people of Ghana. As has been proven, that will soon be found out as false”.