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The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress, (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah popularly known as General Mosquito, has chided the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for bypassing him, as General Secretary of the party which won the most votes in the last general election, when he embarked on his Listening Campaign. The 2012 NPP Presidential Candidate began his nationwide �Listening Campaign� in the Eastern Region on July 4, 2011. The Listening Campaign, according to the NPP, will give their candidate the opportunity to listen at first hand to the concerns and suggestions of the citizenry to help him formulate the appropriate policies and programmes to address such concerns. His campaign for the 2012 elections began with prayers at the Christ Apostolic Preachers Church in Akwasiho, Abetifi, Kwahu. However, in a wide ranging interview including fallout from the party�s recent National Delegates� Congress during which Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of NDC founder Jerry John Rawlings received a humiliating 3.1% of votes cast, Mr Asiedu Nketiah told Citi FM�s Shamima Muslim that he was at a loss as to what Nana Akufo-Addo expected to hear now that he did not hear in the run up to the 2008 elections. If Nana Akufo-Addo had sought his views, General Mosquito said he �would have said that he is a very good opposition leader and the democracy and the interest of the country would be better served if he remained a vibrant opposition leader to be pushing for minority views in the system, not to be the president of Ghana�. He also described NPP Chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey as no longer believable, having in his opinion, made several predictions that have not come to pass. However, in a sharp response, the Campaign Manager for the Nana Akufo-Addo campaign team, Mr Boakye Agyarko described Johnson Asiedu Nketia as one who lacks the moral authority to offer any form of advice to the flagbearer of the NPP. Mr Agyarko said the NDC General Secretary must first address the internal wranglings within his party, saying the NDC has lost their grip on power and was a party �in palpable implosion�. �If Asiedu Nketia and the NDC have anything to say they should say it to themselves, their own party is not listening to them, they are in disarray so if he wants to do anything he has to learn to listen to his party first and foremost�the NDC has a huge and bigger problem on its head. You have just gone and disgraced your founder who is the foundation of your ideological underpinning, they have a bigger problem they should go and solve that�.