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While the New Patriotic Party and its 2016 flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, are increasingly losing hope on their chances of annexing the Presidency in the upcoming polls as a result of President Mahama’s stupendous performance, some functionaries of the governing National Democratic Congress are busily and, perhaps, unconsciously working to aid Nana Akufo-Addo achieve his childhood dream of becoming president.

These NDC appointees, mostly ministers and their deputies, chief executives of state institutions and their board members, metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives, party functionaries and their assigns, seem astonishingly indifferent to the ruling party retaining power after the November 7 elections.

Paradoxically, while Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP appeared out of steam and unable to put together a campaign message to counter President Mahama’s achievements, these anti-second term officials of the ruling NDC, through their actions and inactions, unfortunately, are making a strong case for the selection of the NPP twice defeated presidential candidate.

In spite of the several warnings by The aL-hAJJ alerting the NDC that bigwigs of the biggest opposition party are feverishly shopping for supposed acts of corruption to buttress their often-cited accusation of incompetence in order to nail the ruling party ahead of the elections, some appointees and members of the government and party don't care at all and do not give a hoot. They rather seem to be in a hurry to dance to the tune of the opposition party's agenda to pave the way for NPP’s ascension to power.

Weeks of painstaking investigations by this paper discovered that, while political strategists of the opposition NPP have already earmarked some past and prevailing alleged acts of corruption and abuse of office to be used against the Mahama-led administration in the coming days, several other acts likely to border on sleaze and misconduct are being provided by some appointees of the government.

The aL-hAJJ can report that while the NDC government is still grappling with scandals such as Woyome, GYEEDA, SADA, Bus Branding and others, some officials of the same NDC government seem nonchalant, and are doing everything regardless of whether it will affect the fortunes of the government going into the crucial November elections.
 
Credible intelligence reaching this paper indicate that, in the coming days and/or weeks, the impatient and desperate opposition NPP are expected to latch unto some lingering acts with the potential of being cited as scandalous, involving some appointees, agents and assigns of the Mahama administration ahead of this year's elections.

Some of the revelations will look disturbing as the supposed wrong doings or malfeasances, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, could damage the government, though the NDC administration has done so well in restructuring the country's colonial economy and also embarking on massive and unprecedented infrastructural development mother Ghana.

A leading member of NDC who is conversant with political plots and planning told this paper that though the real impact of the NPP’s planned propaganda is yet to be imagined, the NPP plot, if not countered, will definitely have a collateral effect on the government and party in spite of all the good works the Mahama government is doing for the people of Ghana.

“One of the areas we have fallen short is our inability to swiftly counter the vicious oppositions’ corruption charges against this government. The President has so far shown that he is committed to fighting corruption…and all the issues of corruption that has come up, actions are being taken to bring those involved to book but the NPP has succeeded in polluting the minds of Ghanaians that this government is most corrupt. They will intensify the corruption charge against us in the coming days, trust me, it is really going to affect our chances,” the senior NDC official told this paper.

Confirming the plan to release the attack on the administration, a senior member of the NPP was recently reported to have stated at a crucial meeting attended by leading members of the party including Nana Akufo-Addo that it is becoming difficult to engage NDC officials and communicators in debate over infrastructural development, hence the need to feed Ghanaians with “anything and everything”, particularly government’s corruption record.

“Like I said earlier, these figures don’t mean anything to the ordinary Ghanaians so what we have to do is to package anything and everything to nail this people in order to convince the people to vote this corrupt regime out,” he stated.