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As the campaigns for the NPP presidential primary heats up, controversy has started brewing between two NPP flagbearer aspirants over the use of a campaign slogan.
The camp of Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng is accusing that of Nana Akufo-Addo of literally stealing their slogan.
According to Felix Fondah, spokesperson for Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, before any of their campaign members speaks to a gathering, the person has to start with the slogan “five-five” and the people would respond “and we are there, its is our time for a change”.
He intimated that throughout their tours of Brong Ahafo, Central and other regions, that has been their slogan but Nana Addo's camp, he claimed has now appropriated the slogan.
But Mustapha Hamid, the Spokesperson for Nana Addo, has denied the accusation, arguing that the slogan “certainly cannot be for Prof. [Frimpong-Boateng].
“We say five-five, then the polling stations executive reply ye bre nie, this in Akan means ‘this is our time’”.
He said the slogan was thought out for the polling stations executive because the forthcoming congress would be the first time for all five executives of a polling station to vote at such a high level election where a flag-bearer of the party is selected.
Mustapha Hamid said during the struggle to get the Electoral College expanded, Nana Addo was at the forefront “so when Nana Addo goes to campaign and reminds them that this is their time, and that he was instrumental in doing it, how can that be anybody’s slogan?”
He placed on record that Nana Addo in actual sense was not using that as a campaign slogan, rather, “Nana Addo’s slogan is ‘yeni da wu su’”.
He however insisted that the camp would continue to remind the people of the slogan “it’s our time”.
Story by Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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