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Communications Director at the office of the President, Koku Anyidoho, has rounded on a leading member of the Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (FONKAR), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, for suggesting that President Mills knocked on his doorsteps and asked him to bring his (Bempah�s) expertise to bear in strategizing for the NDC�s success in the run-up to the 2008 elections. He has therefore issued a stern warning to the FONKAR Director of Operations not to try roping in President Mills on his media escapades, but should rather seek out ways of addressing the issues bordering on his �locus� as an NDC member. He was reacting to assertions by the FONKAR member that President Mills called on him several times to help the NDC in its re-strategizing process during the 2008 election. According to Owusu Bempah, his contribution to the NDC�s 2008 electioneering campaign cannot be watered down in any way, revealing that he even organized some businessmen to donate $USD40,000 to the party and was asked (by then Candidate Mills) at a point in time to bring his expertise to bear in brainstorming for the NDC�s electoral success. But speaking in an interview on Adom FM�s Dwaso Nsem morning show, Koku Anyidoho discounted Bempah�s claims describing them as a figment of his imagination. �It is not true, Adakabre. President Mills has never spoken to Owusu Bempah and I don�t think he will speak to him. Mills has never spoken to Owusu Bempah and not even about strategizing� With all due respect to Bempah, if Mills want to speak to him and strategize with him, he will do that through me and I have not done that and the president has not done that also,� he stated.