I didn't promote NPP into power; I just criticised then NDC's misdeeds as I’m doing now — Franklin Cudjoe

The Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has refuted claims that he deliberately promoted the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) into power in the 2016 elections.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, June 25, Mr. Cudjoe stated that he was just criticising the then-ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government's "misdeeds" at the time, not a deliberate attempt to boost the NPP.

"I want to ask some of you to stop peddling the false narrative that l deliberately promoted this government into power," wrote Mr. Cudjoe.

“It was the NDC's misdeeds, which at the time was unmatched by any party since 1992 that got us all complaining,” the policy advisor stressed.

Mr. Cudjoe added that he "do[es] not care if my actions then benefitted the NPP electorally in 2016."

The IMANI Africa head insisted that his role is to criticize poor governance, not promote any political party and that is exactly what he is doing against the ruling NPP.

"Just know though that as l did then, I will and have been doing same against current economic decadence, grand procurement-inspired theft, larceny, misgovernance, misrule, aggravated arrogance, fiscal recklessness culminating in the ugliest of financial haircuts, demeaning of the self-esteem of our pensioner senior citizens and shepherding almost a million people into hard-core poverty as never experienced since generations,” he wrote.