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NEW PATRIOTIC Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ave-Avenor, Leo-Nelson Adzidogah has raised a red flag over a ceremony to honor the area�s current MP, Edward Doe Adjaho. DAILY GUIDE has learnt that Mr. Adjaho will be honored today by the chief and traditional leaders in the constituency and the Akatsi district for his achievements as their MP during the past two decades. The ceremony will be held at the Akatsi R.C Primary School Park However Mr. Adjaho�s contender from the NPP camp, Mr. Adzidogah popularly called Homeboy believes the event is uncalled for because the MP has nothing to show for the 19 years he has been in parliament. �The occasion will be draped in NDC party colors to portray the failed MP as an achiever in a bid to whitewash him and place him in a favourable light towards the 2012 elections,� he said in an interview with DAILY GUIDE. He added that while the people are lamenting over Mr. Adjaho�s failure in the constituency, the ruling National Democratic Congress has set up a ceremony to sing his praises noting �it is parochially expedient for the NDC to organize this forum to shamefully honour a man who has no vision for the constituency.� Homeboy who believes the event is being sponsored by the current MP himself said �achievements speak for themselves, you do not need to compel people to speak about it. What is the MP going to be honoured for? He can only be honoured for his disgraceful failures and lack of visionary leadership.� Mr. Adzidogah said the first deputy speaker of parliament�s failures are too numerous to recount and the many years he has served as MP for the area has been a waste for the constituency in terms of development. �Apart from roads started by the erstwhile NPP government and completed by the incumbent NDC there is no single tarred road in the constituency, there�s inadequate potable water, abject poverty and deprivation, massive unemployment and inadequate health facilities among many other problems.� He said the ceremony which is being forced on the chiefs and people by the NDC belittles the intelligence of the traditional leaders and their subjects. More so �this plan by Hon. Doe Adjaho and NDC constituency executives feeds into the grand propaganda scheme by the party in the Volta region to project itself as a party of success and achievement in the area,� he said. This he noted was amply demonstrated by NDC National Youth Organizer, Ludwig Hlordze who said there was the need to communicate to the people the numerous developments brought to the area by the ruling party during a three-day tour of the region. Homeboy however called the statement ridiculous saying people in the region claim they cannot see any such development. �Any development brought to the region will speak for itself. This is how the NDC always undermines the intelligence of people in the region,� he explained. He concluded by saying the ruling party�s schemes will fail because this time around Voltarians are wide awake and more discerning. They will not give their mandate to party symbols but the individuals they believe can perform and deliver development and hope, he said.