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Presidential aide, Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye has dared functionaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to follow up with threats of registering in the Odododiodoo constituency if they are ready to stand the wrath of the constituents in the ongoing biometric registration exercise. This follows the ultimatum given him by the General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, to stop preventing people from registering in the area. Mr. Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, gave Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye up to the close of today (Thursday) to desist from preventing members of the NPP from registering in the ongoing biometric registration exercise. Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye who is also the ruling National Democratic Congress� (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Odododiodoo is alleged to have prevented some people who are not resident in the area from registering on Wednesday. Speaking to XYZ News on Thursday afternoon, Sir John said �we call on the police and everybody to ensure that law and order prevail otherwise we will do whatever is in our power to ensure that our people are protected so Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye should not think that he has the monopoly of violence and therefore through violence he would stop people from registering. �We give him up to today, if he does not mend his ways, he will meet his match in this area. The same method that he is using to prevent people from registering, we will use and employ the same method� we will do whatever it takes for our people to register.� But in a swift rebuttal, Nii Lantey has described the statements as �empty threats.�