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The brouhaha surrounding Nana Addo’s plan to establish one factory in each district across the country when voted into power has taken another twist – this time, the Progressive People’s Party [PPP] claim they own the ideology of Nana Addo’s promise.

According to their National Chairman, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond ‘1-district, 1-factory’ is an idea of his party’s leader, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom.

He told Accra based TV3 that – the plan was part of PPP’s agenda for the 2012 elections.

“It has been copied but we are happy that NPP has copied our idea,” he said – adding that, “this is not the first time the NPP is stealing ideas from us [PPP].

Nii Allotey Brew Hammond also cited the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs), recently suggested by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as an idea of Dr Nduom.

His comment comes after NPP’s flagbearer, Nana Addo’s recent promise during his five-day tour of the Central Region.

The NPP leader explained that “this talk of ‘It can’t be done’ anytime a new idea is proposed by me, is not one that bothers me. It is those who have no vision or clue of how to develop policies to help the Ghanaian people who peddle such stories. These people, clearly, have no business in leadership.”

“When I said I was going to implement the Free SHS policy, Mahama said it cannot be done. But, later, he turned around and tried to implement it,” he said.

Again, the NPP flagbearer noted: “The same way I proposed the Northern Development Authority to help the three northern regions, so as to help bridge the developmental gap between the north and south, there was the usual talk of ‘it cannot be done’, ‘he can’t do it’. Again, he (President Mahama) tried, through the creation of SADA, to implement my idea. He failed woefully at it.”

Nana Akufo-Addo, therefore, urged Ghanaians not to be hoodwinked by this “propaganda”, as it is a clear evidence of persons who have no vision of how to bring progress to Ghana.

According to him, “It is only a good leader who can spot the problems and propose policies to solve the problems to the benefit of Ghanaians.”