The National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not believe in politics of insults but will not fail to scrutinise the characters of its political opponents, its national propaganda secretary has stated.<\/p>\n
According to Mr Richard Quashigah, the moral uprightness of a presidential candidate was equally as important as the developmental issues the candidate would champion ahead of an election.<\/p>\n
While agreeing that the 2012 campaign must be focused on issues, he said: \u201cYou cannot divorce issues from the character of the one who seeks a particular office or to become a leader.<\/p>\n
Issues and character are intertwined. Mind you at every point in time, people will follow a leader only as far as they can trust his trait or character. For instance, whether he is credible, whether he is humble, whether he has respect for his fellow men, whether he is committed to ensure that he lives by his words, that he is honest and not a liar. These things are very important. So yes, let\u2019s talk about issues but you cannot leave out the character of the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quarshigah was reacting to threats by the youth of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that they would swim in the gutters of insults with the NDC if the ruling party officials did not stop the personal attacks on the NPP flag bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n
The Young Patriots, a youth group affiliated with the NPP at a news conference on Monday bemoaned what they described as the needless and unwarranted attacks on their flag bearer.<\/p>\n
One of the spokespersons of the group, John Kumah, alleged that during the just ended NDC Congress in Sunyani, a barrage of insults were heaped on Nana Addo.<\/p>\n
He accused President John Mills of rewarding insolent ministers who bore their teeth at the NPP flag bearer.<\/p>\n
He also alleged that deputy Interior Minister, Messrs Kobby Acheampong, the National and Central Region Propaganda Secretaries, Richard Quashigah and Allotey Jacobs respectively were leading the onslaught for the NDC.<\/p>\n
He warned that the NPP will be forced to profile the moral decadence of high profile members of the NDC if the ruling party did not desist from what he called the personal attacks.<\/p>\n
But the NDC national propaganda secretary, Quashigah, said the NDC abhorred politics of insults.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NDC does not believe in politics of insults either. And we have not intended to insult or carry out politics of smear campaign against Nana Akufo-Addo. Not at all. It is not in our character,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He reiterated the need however, for parties to have a candidate who is not known to deal in drugs, not known to be corrupt, saying, \u201cif you are a leader and you have character challenges, you will not be able to deliver on promises.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said for the country to get to where it wanted to, ‘we must have a man of unblemished character, so definitely issues of character do not amount to insults’.<\/p>\n
Mr Quashigah stated that if one could prove \u201cthat a particular person is highly immoral or is a thief or the person uses drugs or the person will loot state coffers if he gets the opportunity\u201d it should not be swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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