The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has strongly denied contents of a leaked tape involving its National Chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo.

A leaked tape purported to be the voice Ofosu-Ampofo in a meeting with party communicators said “we’re going to take her [EC boss] to the cleaners.”

“As for the EC chair, we must wage a relentless war on this EC chair. Me, she doesn’t want to see my face,” Ofosu Ampofo allegedly said at the meeting which took place after the Ayawaso by-election.

As part of strategic communication plans for the NDC going into the 2020 elections, Ofosu-Ampofo also gave his blessings for the communicators to verbally attack the Peace Council chairman Professor
Emmanuel Asante.

Reacting to the leaked tape  in a statement Wednesday the NDC said the statements and attributions contained on the said tape are concocted and false and “inconsistent with the character and track record of Chairman Ofosu Ampofo and do not reflect the values he has always stood for.”

According to the party, “the maliciously depraved and clearly doctored tape has been contrived by some devious elements in the NPP and  government to undermine the NDC and its National Chairman.”

Below is the full statement

NDC RESPONDS TO ALLEGED LEAKED RECORDING INVOLVING ITS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken notice of an alleged
leaked audio recording being circulated by officials and surrogates of
Government and the New Patriotic Party, in which certain doctored
remarks have been mischievously attributed to the National Chairman of
the NDC.

However, we are not surprised about this act of desperation on the
part of the ruling NPP. In the wake of an impending damning expose by
ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in which key officials
of the Akufo-Addo government have been caught on camera receiving
bribes in order to compromise government’s so-called fight against
illegal mining, the NDC can understand government’s restless desperation
to divert public attention with this rather vile and fraudulent audio
recording.

The NDC states for the records that the statements and attributions
contained on the said tape are concocted and false. They are
inconsistent with the character and track record of Chairman Ofosu
Ampofo and do not reflect the values he has always stood for. The
maliciously depraved and clearly doctored tape has been contrived by
some devious elements in the NPP and government to undermine the NDC and
its National Chairman.

Having said this, the NDC is fully aware of evil and wicked plots by
certain elements within National Security and Government to spy on
meetings of its officials, record and in turn doctor such recordings for
their spiteful ends. Such state-sponsored espionage is dastardly and
shameful. The party is currently considering all legal options available
to it and will take appropriate steps to halt this phenomenon
immediately.

We state without equivocation that the position of the NDC on the
matters that have been alleged on the audio is a matter of public record
and that, the party does not need to resort to a so called secret
meeting to hatch the sardonic plots captured on the fake tapes being
circulated.

It is quite astonishing to us that, despite compelling evidence of
state complicity in the recent state-sponsored violence at the Ayawaso
West Wuogon by-election, the NPP is still hell-bent on achieving
political equalization by seeking to rope the NDC into non-existent
culpability. It is obvious to us that the NPP’s Director of
Communications, Hon. Yaw Buabeng Asamoah does not know that he is
proceeding on a lonely path, and believing in his own lies because the
Ghanaian people do not subscribe to his cock and bull narrative relative
to the events of Ayawaso West Wuogon.

We wish to however serve notice to the Akufo-Addo government that the
NDC will not be swayed by such diversionary tactics, but will stay
focused on highlighting the present levels of despondency among the
Ghanaian people, occasioned by the bad policies and economic
mismanagement of the Akufo-Addo government.

The NDC urges all well-meaning Ghanaians to reject the said audio
recording and treat all of its content with the contempt it deserves.

Signed:

SAMMY GYAMFI

NATIONAL COMMUNICATION OFFICER, NDC