Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi and a member of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Constitutional and Legal Committee, has dismissed a viral video suggesting former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been sidelined by the party as doctored and misleading.
Speaking on The Point of View with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV on Monday, July 21, Oppong Nkrumah said the footage had been selectively edited to push a false narrative.
“That video is a controversial video. You’re somebody who is very skilled in this enterprise. Go and watch that video and see how it has been edited. I won’t make any further comments. Go and watch and see how it’s been edited. And you can make a judgment for yourself whether it is the full words that he spoke or whether it has been truncated for a particular purpose. We’re in a time of competition,” he said.
He cautioned that such tactics by individuals within the party to create division through manipulated content were both dangerous and counterproductive.
“This attempt by some party persons to create an impression by using some of these videos, heavily edited, I challenge you to go and look at the video where they bring in the red lines to cut out what he’s saying in detail.
“This attempt to use former leaders to pitch them against current leadership should stop. There’s not a single council meeting we have gone to that we have not invited former President Kufuor,” Oppong Nkrumah warned.
His remarks come amid heightened concerns over internal tensions within the NPP, particularly following the absence of both former Presidents Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the party’s National Delegates Conference held on July 19.
