The Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Bawumia campaign team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has dismissed claims by Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), that the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is a liar. 

He reaffirmed his confidence in Dr. Bawumia, noting that "There are three things I know about the vice president - he’s not a liar, he’s not corrupt, and he’s not a drunkard,” he added. 

Miracles Aboagye further noted that Sammy Gyamfi’s claims about the Bawumia being a liar are baseless, as reported by myjoyonline.com.

“You don’t call the vice president a liar when you have no basis. Then you ask him what makes the vice president a liar; he says [the vice president] said he would build Cape Coast Airport and hasn’t built it, so he’s a liar."

According to him, Sammy Gyamfi and the NDC have consistently misled the public. 

“This gentleman has consistently been lying about so many things in the country. He’s done it for so long, and then he comes back and has the effrontery to call the vice president of the Republic of Ghana names and call him a liar. 

“And he goes back to his bureau, sits down with his group, and they orchestrate, scheming the algorithms on lying to actually plant and make the vice president of the Republic of Ghana a liar,” he stressed. 

He maintained that despite the unfulfilled promises by the former President and NDC flagbearer, John Mahama, the NPP has never attacked him. 

“I just showed you 280 promises made by the president of Ghana in 2012, John Mahama, that as president he was going to fulfill these things. 

“Out of the 280, he did not do 191 of them. Have you heard us call him a liar? 

I’m very hesitant in calling the former president names because I’m an Akan, but I take complete exception from him and his followers by the consistent denigration of the vice president of the republic without provocations,” he Aboagye stated. 

He also questioned how Dr. Bawumia, who has never been president, could be labelled a liar, while John Mahama, who has held the presidency and failed to deliver on his promises, is not subjected to similar scrutiny. 

On Saturday, August 31, 2024, Sammy Gyamfi, while making a submission on Newsfile on JOYFM, claimed that the NPP's assertion that the NDC had stolen their policies was untrue and that it was the NPP that had copied NDC policies. 

“The next NDC government will provide free tertiary education for persons with disability. So why would you come and sit here and lie that we have stolen your promise or policy when it was contained in our 2020 manifesto at the time Bawumia was not even contesting for president?” he said. 

“If they are so lazy that they can’t read our manifesto before they come and lie, at least what about checking on the internet? You come and sit here - this is your stock in trade; move from radio stations to radio stations telling lies,” he noted. 

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