The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has defended the Abetifi MP, Bryan Acheampong's comment about not handing over power to the NDC comment.

In a statement issued on April 10 and signed by the General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua noted that Mr Acheampong’s comment was in response to former President John Mahama’s ‘do or die’ statement ahead of the 2024 election.

“It was in response to these myriads of reckless and treasonable comments from the NDC that Hon Bryan Acheampong gave encouragement to supporters of the NPP, who may feel intimated by the many threats coming from the NDC, that, under no circumstance should they feel intimated because the NPP has men of courage who can rise to the defence of our democracy and the 1992 Constitution of the Republic as enshrined in Article 3 of the Constitution,” parts of the statement indicated.

As a result, the party notes that “if anybody has to be arrested by the Police for treasonable comments, then certainly it is John Dramani Mahama for his continuous ‘Do or die for the NDC’in reference to the 2024 general elections, and Asiedu Nketia for his brazen proclamation that members of the NDC are willing to sacrifice their lives to win the 2024 elections.”’

This follows the Agric Minister on Saturday while addressing party supporters after a health walk at Mpreaso said that the current NPP will not hand over power to the NDC and that the NDC will use whatever means necessary to remain in power.

He added that if the NDC dares to use threats, and brute force in the 2024 election, the NPP will show them that they have the men.

This comment got the NDC responding while calling on the IGP to arrest Mr Acheampong for the treasonable comment.

According to them, the lawmaker's comment poses a threat to democracy.

However, the NPP say that they consider the NDC’s attack on Bryan Acheampong not only unwarranted but also attention-seeking with an ill attempt to emotionally blackmail Ghanaians to court their support.

They described the opposition’s statement on the issue as “ill-founded, hypocritical, illogical, and baseless”

They went on to say that it “also lacks contextual substance for the consumption of the discerning Ghanaians who are not oblivious to the modus operandi of the main opposition party in deliberately putting diabolic and mischievous slant to an otherwise innocuous comment such as the comments made by the Member of Parliament, in furtherance of their selfish political interest.”