The Director of Communications and Spokesperson for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia's presidential campaign, Denis Miracle Aboagye has criticised the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for his statements about the Vice President.

According to him, Sammy Gyamfi has no basis to label the flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) a liar without providing evidence.

“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 and so he’s a liar,” he said.

His comments were in response to Mr Gyamfi, who accused Dr Bawumia and the NPP of deceiving Ghanaians with unfulfilled promises.

Speaking on Newsfile on Saturday, August 31, Mr Gyamfi 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,” Mr Gyamfi argued.

But responding to him on the same show, Mr Aboagye expressed displeasure with the statement and asserted that it is Mr Gyamfi and the NDC that 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 argued 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,” Mr Aboagye stated.

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

“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.

Mr Gyamfi reminded Mr Aboagye about the attacks on former President Mahama who was once called incompetent by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and supporters of the NPP.