The (NDC) has found itself at the centre of a storm of political hypocrisy, following confirmation that Vice-President Professor returned to Ghana aboard a private jet after a medical emergency in the United Kingdom, though the NDC kicked against the use of private jets.
The development, which comes barely six months after the party assumed office, has reignited a fierce national conversation about VVIP travel, state asset maintenance, and Ghana's long-troubled experience with presidential jets.
At the heart of the backlash is the NDC's past - a well-documented record of fiercely criticising the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for what it labelled "extravagant", "wasteful", and "profligate" buying of presidential jets and use of private jets.
But with Vice-President Opoku-Agyemang flying home aboard a private aircraft due to the unavailability of the country's official presidential jet, the Falcon 900EX, the NDC now finds itself on the defensive, and many observers argue it has been caught in a web of its political rhetoric.
