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Shawn Carter aka Jay Z, once coined the phrase �Men lie, women lie but numbers don�t� on Black Entertainment Television (BET). And it is upon this premise that Dr. Apraku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has weighed in with his views that records show that he performed better for the party when he was made campaign manager in 2008. The former Minister of Trade and Industry, Regional Cooperation and NEPAD during the erstwhile Kufour regime stated on OKAY FM that he feels less perturbed when his aptitude is questioned since the person who performed his work in 2012 can�t match his credentials. Although the New Patriotic Party lost the 2008 elections, Dr. Apraku pontificated that his tireless efforts saved the party from humiliation. The NPP, according to him, lost the 2008 election by just 40,000 votes when he was the campaign manager. The former Offinso North MP continued that when he was out of the picture in the 2012 general election, the NPP lost the election by 220,000 votes. �The reality is that we lost the 2012 election by 220,000 votes�In 2008, we won 49.77% of the presidential votes; today it has reduced to 46.81% votes. Today, there is no single region that we can boast of a better result than we polled in 2008. He ended by making an emphatic statement that �I did better in every region� for the NPP.