North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has shot down assertions that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are the same.

The lawmaker and former deputy education minister stated that “God, the clergy, and the Ghanaian people” have been “deceived” by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Speaking about the National Cathedral project, he said the government demolished several structures to build the most expensive hole in the world.

He was speaking at the launch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 Manifesto in Winneba, Central Region, on Saturday, August 24, 2024.

He recounted how “in the process” of actualizing the president’s personal religious dream, “so many edifices were demolished,” including, but not limited to, “the judiciary training institute, judges’ bungalows, scholarship secretariat, passport head office, and the Malian ambassador’s residence.”

“Did you ever hear Mahama say he woke up with a nightmare and so has decided to make a personal pledge, and so he’s going to sink 58.1 million dollars into the world’s most expensive pit?” Ablakwa quizzed.

He described Mahama as a nation-builder who, during his presidency, built “the University of Ghana Medical Centre, Ridge Hospital, Shai-Osudoku Hospital, Terminal 3 at the Kotoka International Airport, Kumasi Airport, Tamale Airport, Ho Airport,” etc., comparing him to the current president, who “is demolishing, destroying in a deceptive pledge where he says he will not use our taxes.”

“How can you say these two people are the same and that these two parties are the same?” Ablakwa asked in admonishment. The notion that the NDC and NPP are the same is “baseless and unfounded,” he stressed. “The NDC is different.”