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A youth-wing of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Young Patriots, has in a tersely worded-statement, taken Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey, former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority and one-time Presidential Candidate of the defunct United Ghana Movement to the cleaners. The statement, issued today, accused the former VRA CEO who prides himself as one of the founding members of the NPP of sabotaging and undermining Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the NPP's 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate, to pave way for his own Presidential ambitions on the NPP�s ticket for the next elections. Tarzan, as Dr. Wereko Brobby is affectionately called, on Thursday released a press statement titled, �On the face of the pink sheets or at the heart of the matter� in which he scolded the petitioners in the ongoing 2012 Presidential Election Petition for using Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia whom he described as a �clueless witness� to prosecute their case. But the Young Patriots, in a sharp riposte, described the attack on Dr Bawumia and the NPP leadership, as part of a grand scheme to undermine his (Bawumia�s) potential as a future Presidential Candidate. Whiles warning Tarzan "to lay off Nana Addo and Dr Bawumia", the group urged him "to wine and dine with his new found love, President Mahama and the NDC and leave Nana and the NPP alone". "Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey,... cannot claim to have actively participated in the activities of the party since he miserably lost his ambition to be party chairman, for which he shamefully threatened to go to court but is yet to man up to. The party elders and executives have held several meetings and none of them has Dr Brobbey been present. The Young Patriots wish to urge Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey to shelve any ambitions of becoming the Presidential candidate of the NPP because it will never happen in his life time and the Young Patriots will not even allow him near any function of the NPP," the statement added. Below is the statement issued by the Young Patriots. THE PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS OF A TRAITOR: WEREKO BROBBEY BEWARE The naked presidential ambitions of Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey was fully on display yesterday when he granted an interview to Citi fm to the effect that his stake in the NPP party is the 2016 elections. This ambition will not see the light of day and the earlier he shelves it, the better for him. First and foremost Wereko Brobbey is not a member of the New Patriotic Party and can therefore not claim to have a stake in the party. He may trace his ancestry through the great Victor Owusu of blessed memory but beyond that, he is a betrayal of the party�s ideology and principles. His formation and his subsequent running as the Presidential candidate of the United Ghana Movement (UGM), marked the end of his association with the NPP. There is no record anywhere within the party books to indicate that he was formally readmitted into the party as required. The Young Patriots have checked and have found no record that Dr WWereko Brobbey is a card bearing member of the NPP let alone a member in good standing. Thirdly, Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey, a supposed founding member and elder of the party cannot claim to have actively participated in the activities of the party since he miserably lost his ambition to be party chairman, for which he shamefully threatened to go to court but is yet to man up to. The party elders and executives have held several meetings and none of them has Dr Brobbey been present. The Young Patriots wish to urge Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey to shelve any ambitions of becoming the Presidential candidate of the NPP because it will never happen in his life time and the Young Patriots will not even allow him near any function of the NPP. His continuous maligning of party executives and especially his latest insults of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, whom he thinks he will be pitching against in 2016 is but a wrong attempt to seek attention. We hereby caution him to lay off Nana Addo and Dr Bawumia. We urge him to wine and dine with his new found love, President Mahama and the NDC and leave Nana and the NPP alone. A word to the wise.... SIGNED Richard Nyamah Fred Amankwa Sarfo John Kumah Hopeson Adorye