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The main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has gone back on its words of not using the �People matter, You matter� catchphrase which was the center of a huge debate between them and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) over who owns those words. In what appears to be a U-turn by the NPP, it has revealed the title of its manifesto is �People Matter, You Matter�, contrary to an earlier statement released and signed by the 2012 NPP Campaign Chairman, Boakye Agyarko, which said the NPP was no more interested in using the slogan. In the said statement, the NPP sort to say that the NDC �stole� its manifesto theme for the 2012 campaign adding, �the NPP is not interested in fighting over ownership of a slogan. They are free to appropriate �People matter, You Matter� as their campaign slogan in 2012.� The statement further said �the NDC is free to claim for themselves whatever slogan they want because it is not mere slogans that will determine the verdict of the Ghanaian on December 7.� However, the biggest opposition party in Ghana has swerved the NDC ahead of its manifesto ratification on Saturday. The First Vice Chairman of the NPP, Fred Oware, said in an interview with Citi News �hopefully next week Wednesday we should have a proper public interaction where we hope to bring under one roof people of various walks of life�the kayayo, the CEO, the teacher, the unemployed etc, to come and be introduced to the manifesto and test it, ask questions and we would be able to give them the assurance that the manifesto is taking care of the entire spectrum of all human endeavor here.� He said: �That would be what we would term the proper launch of the manifesto, after that our communication guys should be able to sing from the same hymn sheet because we believe that everybody should have acquainted himself with the context of the �People Matter, You Matter.� �It is not a slogan, that is just the title of the manifesto but it�s our opponents who attempted to turn it into a slogan for us.�