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Crisis seems to have hit the corridors of the much touted National Democratic Party (NDP) even before its official launch and election of flagbearer. Reports have it that leading members of the NDP party who broke-away from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), claiming to be disgruntled with the ways of the party are resigning. Speaking in an interview on Okay FM�s Ade Akye Abia morning show, a leading member of NDP, Dr. Offei Agyemang confirmed that he has resigned from the party. According to the former NDP Acting Spokesperson, he resigned from the party because the NDP is still disorganized and has not put any measures in place to indicate that they can formally partake in the December 7 elections. He accused the NDP of repeating the same mistakes of the NDC which led to the breakaway, stressing that the NDP was formed as alternative to the undemocratic nature of the NDC. He added that his resignation is just part of many leading members who have also resigned from the NDP to rejoin the NDC following the disorganization in the party, though he refused to mention names of some of the NDP members who have joined the NDC. To him, nothing really has changed in the NDC, even with the death of President Atta Mills, which will attract people back into the party. The former NDC Parliamentary Aspirant for the Ayawaso Central Constituency seat in the 2008 elections also argued that he firmly believed Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP will win the December poll, primarily because of the party�s democratic credentials, as evidenced through the expansion of its Electoral College to over 115,000; a format entirely different from the approximately 3000 that voted for President Mills last year and the less than 3000 that endorsed President Mahama last month. He added that the NPP flagbearer�s promise of a free Senior High School (SHS) education policy, coupled with his plans of West Africa and Africa as a whole economically independent shows he visionary a leader he is. He therefore slammed the ruling party for pouring cold water on Akufo-Addo�s free education proposal, saying �I�m at a loss as to how people in government do not know how to create wealth� to fund such a programme.