The Deputy National Communications Officer of the (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, has disclosed that he strategically brought up the Air Bus scandal when Ghanaians were complaining about the hardship in the economy.

He indicated that bringing up the Air Bus scandal helped shift the attention of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to himself and not the economic challenges in the country.

Owusu-Bempeh made this disclosure during a panel discussion on Okay FM, Monday, December 23, 2024, as he was making the point that strategy is important in winning elections.

He asserted that the NPP lost the 2024 presidential election because strategists like himself were ignored, and this was one of the reasons the party lost the election. "Some of us were sidelined in the whole campaign operations.