There is a saying that, if you do not blow your own horn, no one else would do it for you.

And in a sense, if in the face of negative criticism, you refuse to blow nice notes from the horn yourself, then you have yourself to blame. The NPP has adopted this common sense approach and in a 131-page publication put together by the party?s campaign team, led by Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has met head on, the NDC?s attempt to discredit the party?s achievements these past three and half years.

The document has an upbeat title: Positive Change, So far so very good. In the introduction, Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey does not hide the intentions of the document. He writes, ?it is clear so far that if we, members and activists of the New Patriotic Party, do not tell what we have achieved within our first term in government, our opponents will not tell it for us.

Indeed, they will relish distorting the truth about our tenure and success, especially as it compares to theirs.? It has twenty three chapters, with twenty devoted to all sectors of the socio-economic fabric. This document is not the manifesto the NPP is going into the elections with, but a companion document especially since the NDC campaign strategy would be prosecuted from an angle that would attempt to show that the NPP had not lived up to its manifesto promises.

A source close to the NPP campaign team told the ADM that ?we will focus on the positive, but if they decide to go negative, we have enough ammunition to counter them.? He was referring to what is now an open secret that the NDC plans to splash NPP with dirt during the campaign period.