Dennis ‘Miracles’ Aboagye, the Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential campaign, has denounced the ‘Agyapadeɛ’ document as a propaganda tool created by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to harm the NPP’s reputation ahead of the 2024 general election.
The NDC, he claimed, is responsible for the document, alleging that its contents were fabricated to mislead readers about events related to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He argued that the document has failed to achieve its intended impact, which is why the NDC’s presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, has incorporated it into his campaign to revive the failed propaganda effort.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on the Asaase Breakfast Show (ABS) on Monday, August 5, the Director of Communications for the campaign team of the NPP presidential candidate provided historical evidence to support his argument.
According to him, the NDC is behind the book and 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.
He said, “When you pick the Agyapadeɛ book, there are three versions. 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, do 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].”
“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 added.
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, 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?
To strengthen his point on culled stories being woven through the document, Miracles disclosed that 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,” he said.
The Director of Communications for Team Bawumia claimed that the book presents everything as if it’s coming true, except for the parts that haven’t, which he asserted were fabricated.
He pointed out a section of the book that discusses Sir Ofori-Atta I, suggesting a supposed generational plan by the Akyem people to undermine the Ashanti people.
He noted that the book includes images of the Okyenhene and Sir Ofori-Atta, but stressed that the picture claimed to be Sir Ofori-Atta is actually of Nana Sir [Agyeman] Prempeh I after returning from the Seychelles.
He questioned how Gabby and the Akyem group could mistakenly use a picture of Nana Sir Prempeh I as that of their grandfather, Nana Sir Ofori-Atta, and concluded that everything about the book is complete nonsense.