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The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs says the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP’s) demonstration tomorrow is just a ploy by the party's leadership to energise their base, not to fight the cause of the ordinary Ghanaian. 

According to him, the NPP have nothing to tell Ghanaians. Rather the NPP leadership wants to create the impression they are working and thereby motivate their party members to have faith in them while creating disaffection for the government.

Ghana's largest opposition party will embark on a protest tomorrow February 18 dubbed 'Won gbo', a Ga phrase meaning 'we are dying', to express displeasure over what they describe as Ghana’s unending power crisis.

But Mr. Jacobs on Adom FM Tuesday accused the NPP of being partly responsible for the current crises by "failing to lay a good foundation during its regime," a situation he says has compounded the deteriorating energy situation in the country.

The NDC has been in government since January 7, 2009.

“They have nothing to tell the people of this country when they embark on their demonstration because what they will do on that day is to incite the mob to worsen the situation.

“It is their democratic right to demonstrate, yes we don’t dispute that but I must confess that their demonstration will not hold water, it is politically unnecessary" he stated.

He however assured Ghanaians that President Mahama has put in place the necessary infrastructure and mechanisms to alleviate the situation.