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Mr Dan Botwe, the Member for Parliament for Okere, has appealed to supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to be vigilant and serious at the polling stations on election day since every election was won at that point. He said since 1992 it had been established that winning or losing elections depended on how vigilant and serious your polling agents were. Mr Botwe said this when he addressed delegates and party supporters at the just ended Okere constituency delegates� elections at Adukrom on Sunday. Mr Botwe said it was against that background that he called on the rank and file of his party to take the election of polling station executives much more seriously than ever before. According to Mr Botwe, it was the polling station executives who primarily appointed polling agents in an election year, therefore, their job function must be taken very seriously. He said if the party was able to get vigilant, committed and serious polling agents, there was no way anybody could influence them or put fear in them in order to compromise. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in a telephone interview on Tuesday, he commended supporters of the NPP in his constituency and across the country for the peaceful manner in which the elections were conducted. Mr Botwe spoke about ramblings in the party concerning people expressing their views and said he was confident the party would come out stronger and united after its national delegate�s congress in March 2014. According to him, skeptics praying for a divided NPP ahead of the 2016 general elections would be proved wrong after the party�s congress. Mr Botwe said such people were propagandist for their opponents and therefore urged NPP supporters not to take them serious but focus on their work so that they cold wrestle power from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said although some few aggrieved contestants and their loyalists were in court challenging the process in some constituencies, large percentage of the elections was successful. He appealed to the party supporters in all constituencies across the country to put aside their differences and unite and work towards winning both the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2016.