After seeing his political twin (Jonathan/John) booted out of office in Nigeria, John Mahama's desperation to hang onto power beyond 2016 is beginning to look apparent as his surrogates are now seeking to institute diversionary tactics. Ghanaians must be ready for attempts by the NDC to flood the news with non-issues to engage the Ghanaian people, such that their focus will be taken away from the atrocious handling of Ghana's economy, law and order, corruption and wanton thievery of the nation's coffers. But we in the NPP will remain steadfast and resolute about keeping Ghanaians focused on how Mahama and the NDC have destroyed the middle-income country we bequeathed to them in January 2009.

A writ filed at the court recently by two activists of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and sighted by JOY NEWS says Nana Akufo-Addo illegally kept two vehicles for nineteen months and thus should be declared unfit to run for president. What a joke considering in John Dramani Mahama we have a president who breaks the law virtually on a daily basis.

Didn't president Mahama overspend his own allocated budget at the Presidency by GHC 300 million in the second half of 2012 without making a formal request in Parliament as required by the constitution – an impeachable offense? Didn't president Mahama break international regulations by authorizing the laundering of $3million in 2014 – also an impeachable offense? Hasn't president Mahama appointed NDC members who are previous convicts to positions, in contravention of the laws of Ghana?

We at NPP-USA are aware of the shady deals happening at the presidency that have resulted in a survey in which Ghanaians rank the presidency as the second most corrupt institution in Ghana. We hereby serve notice that should the NDC attempt to throw decorum out of the window and seek to attack Nana Akufo-Addo, we shall likewise remove the veil and tell things as we know them.

The NDC is thus hereby warned to focus on correcting the wrongs that they have done, the thievery, the corruption, the incompetence, and all the ills they have unleashed on the Ghanaian people rather than displaying their appetite for unnecessary propaganda campaigns. The 2016 elections will be held as a referendum on the disastrous stewardship of the last eight years, and not on any other matters. Nana Akufo-Addo's record is impeccable and no amount of shenanigans will blemish it.

NPP-USA Public Relations Committee