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A member of the communication team of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Asante Yeboah has expressed worry about the heat boiling up as his party is preparing for internal elections to choose the next leaders for the 2016 general elections, thereby forewarning the danger such attitude will pose for the NPP if not changed. The arrival and declaration of Alan Kyerematen to join the Flagbearership race of the NPP prior to the 2016 general election has angered a senior member of the party who states that the time isn�t right for him (Alan) to enter the race due to his past mistakes as a Trade and Industry Minister in charge of cassava planting under the President�s Special Initiatives (PSI) project. Hon. P.C. Appiah-Ofori noted that Mr. Kyerematen made some remarkable errors which are still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians. The first mistake according to P.C. Appiah-Ofori, was to exhibit his incompetent managerial skills when ex-President Kuffour gave him the chance to spearhead the PSI project. According Hon. P.C. Appiah-Ofori, the defeat of Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2012 election was due to the campaign of Alan Kyerematen and his supporters during the party�s primaries with lies that Nana Addo takes in hard drugs and liquor. But reacting to this internal wrangling in the NPP, Asante Yeboah averred on Okay FM that it is time to chase away this old attitude of the party which has not helped the NPP in elections except to run down on the character and ability of leaders in the party before Ghanaians. ��my problem is that if we don�t change this tactics which NPP has used over the years for our internal elections, we will continue to suffer. We should realize that whoever the party chooses to lead in the next election, all the members must rally their support behind the candidate...if we continue to run down ourselves in this manner, our political opponents will capitalize on this to attack our leaders,� he cautioned. He was with strong conviction that the name callings in NPP will end up messing up the focus of the party as it prepares to wrestle power from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 election; wondering why such heat is boiling up while the party remains in opposition. ��we should not fight for position while we continue to remain in opposition. The castigations, insults, insinuations, character assassination and running down on people within the party will not build the party,� he advised.