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A deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described the Policy statement delivered by the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a �statement full of contradictions�. He said the policy statement by Nana Addo failed to provide alternatives and was not focused on any core national developmental issue. The flagbearer of the opposition NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday August 31, delivered the NPP�s policy statement, outlining what a new NPP administration under his leadership would put in place to transform the country�s education, health, economy and other sectors that would contribute to national development. The event organised by the Danquah Institute in honour of the founders of the Aborigines Right Protection Society was held at the College of Surgeons and Physicians. The statement is expected to form the basis for the Party�s manifesto for the 2012 general elections. However, speaking on Metro TV�s Good Morning Ghana show on Friday September 2, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa outlined a number of statements made by Nana Addo during the lecture which he described as contradictory. He also dismissed Nana Addo�s pledge to transform the Educational Sector and offer more opportunities to Ghanaians in the nation�s development under his tenure as President. Okudzeto Ablakwa stressed that there is nothing new Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP can offer Ghanaians. On the level of borrowing raised by Nana Addo at the Liberty lecture, Okudzeto Ablakwa said the NPP presided over a government that grossly mismanaged the country�s economy and would be misplaced for it to admonish the NDC government to borrow responsibly. Meanwhile, MP for Okaikoi South, Hon. Nana Akomea noted that the NPP government is not against borrowing but against the reckless borrowing by the NDC government. He said the level of borrowing by the NDC has the tendency to plunge the country into high indebtedness which would create a huge toll on the country�s quota in the revenues to be accrued from Ghana�s share in the oil find.