The running mate of the (NDC), Prof. , has questioned the integrity of the ruling New Patriotic Party's manifesto plan for women, describing it as an attempt to deceive women. "Because we have introduced our plan to establish a Women's Development Bank to provide microfinance support for women, they also say they will set up a fund for women," she said, referring to the NPP's manifesto promise to set up a women's empowerment bank. "Ask them what prevents them from doing what they are saying they will do for women when they come to power. "Have they not been in government all this while? They should do it now if they can truly do it," she told market women at the Mallam Market in Accra on Monday as part of her campaign tour of markets in the capital. According to Prof. Opoku-Agyemang, the NPP and its flagbearer, "do not even understand what they are talking about. They are in power but they say they will do this and that when they come to power.