The UK branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has reacted to a viral video that captured some of their leaders saying it was time for ‘chop chop’ because the party was in office.
The branch came under attack following the viral video but a statement issued by the UK branch said the video has been misinterpreted.
”Those behind such sinister ploys are mostly fuelled by known and unknown actors and mostly compromised, to champion the primal quest of political capital and power of their sponsors, using propaganda, false narratives and innuendos. Their target is clearly Kwaku Nkansah and by extension the NPP UK.
They have taken advantage of the fake news ecosystem to prey on some of our deepest human instincts that leads many vulnerable to accepting and acting on misinformation.
They are succeeding in ensuring that objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than the misinformation appeals to emotions.
On this occasion, they have failed miserably by firing a dead dated clip and masquerading it as a current video to fit their propaganda,” the statement said.
Read the full statement below
Communication Directorate
NPP UK
United Kingdom
3rd May, 2021
Press Statement
NPP UK video circulating on social media
While not wishing to lapse into ad hominem attacks with the agenda driven faces behind the despicable act against the NPP UK Chairman, Derek Kwaku Nkansah, it is only fair that we factually set the narrative to correct the wrong perceptions being perpetrated by those behind the false storm.
Firstly, the video was taken back in 2017 during one of the NPP UK executive election campaigns. The said event accorded short time slots to each candidate present to interact with the delegates. The occasion itself was an end of year dinner event organised by the Northampton Chapter, one of the NPP UK Chapters across the country.
It was a friendly high spirited event with drinks and food in abundance. The short speech being circulated was made in adages and in the spirit of the occasion. It is therefore shocking, and inexplicably, that someone within or an invited visitor purposely recorded the clip, and even worse saved the video for over 3 years and bring it back into circulation through the opposition media. What’s the motive?
Those behind such sinister ploys are mostly fuelled by known and unknown actors and mostly compromised, to champion the primal quest of political capital and power of their sponsors, using propaganda, false narratives and innuendos. Their target is clearly Kwaku Nkansah and by extension the NPP UK.
They have taken advantage of the fake news ecosystem to prey on some of our deepest human instincts that leads many vulnerable to accepting and acting on misinformation.
They are succeeding in ensuring that objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than the misinformation appeals to emotions.
On this occasion, they have failed miserably by firing a dead dated clip and masquerading it as a current video to fit their propaganda.
Let us situate the 2017 video in its rightful context to enable us to judge the veracity of material content and eventually raise the tone of discourse from the smart misinformation trickery of the known / unknown
manipulative actors.
Thank you.
….signed….
NPP UK Communication
Directorate
Communications@nppuk .org
By: Rainbowradioonline.com