Mustapha Gbande, Deputy Director in charge of Operations at the Presidency, has criticised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for its approach toward the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

His comments come in response to the NPP’s plan to deliver what they call the “True State of the Nation Address” on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. This follows President John Dramani Mahama’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on February 27, 2025, which the NPP claims failed to address critical national issues and misrepresented Ghana’s current state.

In a statement dated February 28, the NPP criticised President Mahama’s address for lacking a comprehensive and accurate assessment of the nation’s trajectory since he assumed office on January 7, 2025.

Speaking to Citi News’ Akosua Otchere, Gbande urged the NPP to reconsider its stance and apologise rather than persist with what he described as arrogance and insults.

He accused the opposition party of fostering a mindset aimed at destabilising the country and assured that the NDC would not allow the government to be unfairly attacked or distracted.

“NPP, if they were a good political party led by leaders, thinking leaders, this is the time to reflect, go back to their base and apologise. But yet they won’t do that. They want to still adopt arrogance, they want to still adopt insults, they want to still adopt the mindset to destabilise this country,” Gbande stated.

“I can assure you that the NDC won’t sit back and allow this government to be unnecessarily attacked and distracted,” he added.