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The leadership style of President JEA Mills has again been questioned and this time the leadership of Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has described him as a divisive leader, who has failed to unite the ruling National Democratic Congress. According to FONKAR, since President Mills joined the NDC he has brought divisions into the party, citing the ongoing frosty relationship between him and the NDC founder, former President Rawlings, and the wife. Speaking on an Accra- based radio station yesterday, Ernest Owusu Bempah, Spokesperson for FONKAR, maintained that the President is not a unifier, hence the cracks and factions within the NDC. Again, the vociferous FONKAR spokesperson revealed how President Mills, while working as a Commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service, created divisions and disharmony among the people he worked with. He also alleged that the national security together with some officials from the Castle, the seat of government, were making desperate attempts to break the leadership front of FONKAR, stressing: �They are doing this with the full backing and the knowledge of President Mills.� He added: �Everywhere President Mills goes, he creates or leaves behind a divided group of people�. Mr Owusu Bempah recalled how former President Rawlings had defied all odds to bring President Mills to the political limelight and yet the former was now being unfairly treated referring to Presidents Mills as a hypocrite and ungrateful individual. He stressed that NDC belongs to the former President Rawlings and the wife and that any attempt to sideline them would not work, warning the NDC leadership to uphold the principles of probity, accountability and social justice to save the party from collapse. According to the FONKAR spokesperson, President Mills has categorically told the NDC leadership that he will not need the NDC Founder and the wife to campaign for him in the upcoming national elections scheduled for December because he remains a winnable candidate. Although he failed to disclose the source, Mr Bempah maintained that the President made the statement at Peduase Lodge, where he met some NDC gurus. He said, �He [Mills] knows what is going on and he benefitting from it.� Asked whether FONKAR would support President Mills in 2012 general e elections, Mr Owusu Bempah beat about the bush but gave the impression that the group would not be part of NDC 2012 campaign. Meanwhile, FONKAR has issued a statement to debunk recent publications that the group has broken up in order to support President Mills and NDC in the upcoming elections. The group has accused Ransford Amoah, former President of FONKAR, as the brain behind the publications, with the intention to destroy the group�s aim to protect the legacies of the Rawlingses. The statement stated that FONKAR had resolved to remain united and fight to achieve what it set out to do.