GBC, NCCE have not been fair to us - Nana Addo

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December 2, 2016 5:01 PM

The flagbearer of the largest opposition party Nana Akufo-Addo NPP was missing in action during the debate organised by the NCCE and GBC.

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The Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said he boycotted the presidential debate organized by the National Commission for Civic Education ((NCCE), and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) because the two bodies have become biased in their operations.

“The state agencies that conducted these debates are not agents that have been particularly fair to some of us in opposition. GBC acts like a propaganda wing of the ruling party, so much also the NCCE. I do not see why in those circumstances I will say I am being given the fair crack of the whip and therefore come before such an audience," he said.

He argued that GBC is a public broadcaster and should conduct itself as such.

“I do not like the idea of state owned media. What we should have are public media which operate as such, and therefore they operate under a charter which guarantees their independence and allows them to be able to comment objectively on what is going in the society at any given time, and not necessarily act as propaganda vehicles for the party of the day,” he told Accra-based Citi FM.

Candidates who participated in the Presidential Debate on Wednesday were; John Dramani Mahama of the NDC, Ivor Greenstreet of the CPP, Dr. Edward Mahama of the PNC, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom of the PPP, and Independent presidential candidate, Jacob Osei Yeboah.

The flagbearer of the largest opposition party Nana Akufo-Addo NPP and National Democratic Party (NDP)'s Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings were, however, missing in action.

The various candidates of the parties outlined various measures their government will provide to solve the challenges in the educational sector, health, energy and other sectors of the economy

However, Nana Addo argued that the debate was needless since the various parties had already outlined their policies to the electorate on their respective campaigns.

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