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EDITOR'S NOTE: When the Daily Dispatch newspaper broke the story that Nana Akufo-Addo will by all means contest the 2016 elections, we were called all sorts of names. Now that others are being harassed from contesting, it is clear that Nana Will contest the flagbearership primaries of the New Patriotic (NPP). Below is a recap of the October 24, 2013 story: �Nana Akufo-Addo will Contest 2016 Elections A political Desk Report Very credible information available to the 'Daily Dispatch' indicates that the 2008 and 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, will want to contest the 2016 elections. Sources close to Nana Akufo-Addo, in Britain, the United States and Ghana, have revealed further that by the end of November, Nana Akufo-Addo�s self-imposed rest period will end. One of them explained: �Nana Akufo-Addo, like the late President Atta Mills, will offer himself to the NPP delegates to choose him for the third time, to contest the 2016 elections. An advantage Nana will bring on board this time round is that his decision to immediately accept the Supreme Court verdict impressed many floating voters. The call he put through to President John Mahama to congratulate him has also been highly commended. Another source chipped in: �Many of us close to him believe that Nana Akufo-Addo�s inability to win has been the inability of the NPP to properly market him among the floating voters in Ghana. In addition, certain leading members have been campaigning negatively against him in Ashanti Region, leading to Nana losing votes in the region. And do not ask me to name those individuals � they know themselves.� Asked whether Nana Akufo-Addo�s health, at 72 years, can withstand the rigours of campaigning, one of them said: �having campaigned for five of the last eight years, he will not have to engage in strategic campaigning as he did in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 elections. �The good news is that Nana, having undergone rigours medical examinations, the doctors have given a tentative clean bill of health,� he added. All the three sources the 'Daily Dispatch' talked to were of the view that a better well-organized and honest research is likely to help tilt the scale in favour of Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP in 2016. Explaining further, one of them chose his words carefully: �Nana Akufo-Addo has now realized that one or two leading members of the research team had not been completely honest with him in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 elections. Whilst other polls were pointing to Nana Akufo-Addo losing in some regions, his men were putting out reports which turned out to be untrue.� They however expressed fears that the NPP, currently with a deficit of 28 seats in the current parliament, may not do so well in the 2016 Parliamentary elections because of impending tensions in many of NPP safe parliamentary seats. Their message was clear � Nana Akufo-Addo will contest the 2016 Presidential Elections!�