The Office of NPP’s flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo has described as “irresponsible and reckless piece of journalism,” a publication by ‘The True Statesman’, alleging that “the NPP has turned to Quattara for cash and campaign vehicles.” The paper also alleges that “Nana Addo and his team were in Ivory Coast last month where a series of meetings were held with the Ivorian Chief of Staff.” The paper said its investigations uncovered details of a meeting between Quattara’s Chief of Staff and Nana Akufo-Addo where an amount of CFA 2million was donated towards the NPP campaign. “The entire story is a baseless fabrication, baked in the dilapidated propaganda oven of the True Statesman. We wish to place on record that no such meeting has been held between Nana Akufo-Addo and President Alassane Ouattara’s Chief of Staff and Nana Akufo-Addo has not sought any assistance whatsoever from President Ouattara. Indeed, the last time Nana Akufo-Addo went to the Ivory Coast was in 2008, when he toured a number of African countries including Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Ivory Coast, after being elected flagbearer of the NPP. He has since not been back there in Cote d’Ivoire,” according to a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Nana Addo’s Press Secretary Herbert Krapa. The statement said “it is common knowledge that last month, Nana Akufo-Addo was in the Eastern and Ashanti Regions with his ‘hope restoration tour’. The success of those tours must have elicited this sham of a story by the True Statesman”. “It should not be difficult for the paper to make available to the Ghanaian public, the so called details that they claim to have on this alleged meeting. We dare them to do so or forever bow their heads in shame”. The statement further described the publication as a ploy to dent the image of the NPP flagbearer ahead of the elections. “We are aware that between now and the elections of December, as the NDC continues to suffer in public opinion, desperate efforts are going to be made by their “rented press” to put out all manner of gibberish about Nana Akufo-Addo. Nana Addo remains undistracted by the negative stories and propaganda that the “NDC rented press” continue to put out falsely about him. He will stop at nothing to take his good message of creating a society of opportunities, industrialisation, job creation, access to free quality senior high school education, quality healthcare delivery and a modernised agriculture, amongst many others, to the Ghanaian people, as he is currently doing in the Brong Ahafo Region, which has embraced wholeheartedly this message”.