“Agyapadeɛ” Book: Miracles Aboagye shreds NDC propaganda with evidence

The director of communications for the campaign team of the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dennis “Miracles” Aboagye, has described the Agyapadeɛ document as yet another of many propaganda tools deployed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its assigns to cause disaffection for the NPP in the lead-up to the 2024 general election.

“Miracles” provided historical evidence to support his argument that first, the NDC is behind the book and secondly that all the details captured in the book were manufactured by the NDC off the back of events connected to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to trick readers into believing the content.

The book, “Miracles” said, has failed woefully to achieve its mission and that is why the NDCs presidential candidate, John Mahama, has picked it up again and made it part of his main campaign message to give life to what is a dying vehicle for spin and propaganda.

The Team Bawumia communications director made this known in an interview on the Asaase Breakfast Show.

Three different versions
“When you pick the Agyapadeɛ book, there are three versions,” he said. “There is the first version that is about 37 pages, there is another version that is about 38 pages and there is another version that is about 39 pages. If you pick the 37-page one, which is the first version in 2020, you will realise that no part of it speaks about insurance.

“So, you know when they brought the insurance bit? When the Eurobond issue started coming up and they were talking about how Enterprise Group is the one doing all government insurance, they had to update the book.

“So, they brought a whole chapter labelled ‘Insurance’. When you pick the document, you realise you are holding two Agyapadeɛ books but that whole chapter is not [in the first version],” “Miracles” told the ABS.

“Recently when Nana Addo made the changes at SSNIT, and Mr [John Ofori] Tenkorang left and [Kofi] Osafo- Maafo came to replace him, they went to update the book again. So, when you pick the 39-pager, you see the Ecobank and Osafo-Maafo SSNIT scenario there, but not in the 38-page one, [and] it is not in the 37-page one.

“Do you know what they have been doing? … any time an incident happens, they no longer put out the full document like they used to. They will update the book, do a cutout, circle the paragraph that they have introduced in the new version and share that on social media,” Miracles further said.

Repeated dubious changes
Giving further details from his careful study of the various versions of the so-called Agyapadeɛ, Dennis Miracles Aboagye said: “Any time you see an Agyapadeɛ screenshot, a supposed one-page or a one-paragraph screenshot, go and take the previous book and read. You will never find that one [the screenshot] in the book.

“As a matter of fact, it [the Agyapadeɛ document] is only a compilation of stories and news on online portals. So, see, some parts of the Agyapadeɛ book, when you read it, is a verbatim online story that they picked and put in the book.

“When did the banking sector clean-up happen [2017, 2018, 2019]? How is it in a book that was written in 2017?” Miracles Aboagye asked.

Culled or fake stories
To strengthen his point on culled stories being woven through the document, Miracles said: “There is an article that Kwaku Azar [Professor Kwaku Asare] wrote for CDD that is on the CDD website in 2020. They picked the entire article verbatim and put it in the Agyapadeɛ book.

“And that is supposed to be something that Gabby [Otchere-Darko] and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Akyem Mafia wrote before they came to office? Why, why [are] John Mahama and the NDC treating all of us as stupid? I refuse to be stupid. I refuse to be seen as stupid.

“There is a reason why John Mahama has got into the conversation. He wants to give credence to a book that is dying. People have realised that this is a book that was [put together by the NDC].

“If you pick the book, you will see that everything is coming to pass – except for the ones that have not come to pass, which are the ones that they have sat down and cooked up,” the director of communications for Team Bawumia said.

“In a part where they decided to bring Sir Ofori-Atta I, supposedly to be a generational plan by the Akyem people to undermine the Ashanti people, they bring Okyenhene’s picture, they bring Sir Ofori-Atta’s picture. And guess what? The picture is actually Nana Sir [Agyeman] Prempeh I when he came back from the Seychelles!

“I asked myself, ‘How can Gabby and the Akyem Mafia go and pick Nana Sir Prempeh I’s picture and come and use it mistakenly to be Nana Sir Ofori-Atta, their grandfather?’ … everything about the book is complete nonsense,” Miracles further said.

Source: asaaseradio