Following the ongoing internecine turf war among leadership of the New Patriotic Party, and having now realized the unattractiveness of the party and its flag bearer to the electorate ahead of 2016 elections, friends of the opposition NPP in the leadership of the various labor unions across the country have upped their ante as reported by The al-hAJJ sometime back, with the sole purpose of crippling the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government.