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THE CENTRAL Regional Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Allotey Jacobs has waded into the fracas between his party and the Presbyterian Church describing the latter as having a hidden agenda against his party. Speaking to Oman Fm on Monday he said the Presbyterian Church which lost its voice when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was in power had now regained it. The Basel Missionaries, the forebears of the Presbyterian Church headquartered in Switzerland he pointed out was used to identifying with particular political parties when elections were due. So is the Catholic Church in the US, he said although he denied that the Presbyterian Church had ever openly come out to demand that a particular political party be voted for. He was quick to add however that �by their deeds ye shall know them.� The Presbyterian Church according to him should have engaged the Electoral Commission in a closed-door meeting as opposed to the open approach on the issue of the creation of more constituencies he said pointing out that �the NPP behaves as if they are better primed to rule this country. The NPP is behaving as if there is no law in this country.� When he was reminded that many organizations had expressed opprobrium about the creation of more constituencies especially the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), he said everybody knew where the GBA was coming from. �At the end of the elections we would know which party is the most popular between the NDC and the NPP,� he said. On the Yaw Boateng Gyan tape although he said the National Security apparatus should deal with him if he had breached the law, he justified it with a reference to an NPP personality asking pepper to be sprayed into the eyes of NDC supporters. The Presbyterian Church�s expression over the creation of 45 constituencies attracted the displeasure of the General Secretary of the NDC who asked the church to confine itself to the Bible and steer clear of constitutional issues. In a reaction, the church�s PRO observed that Asiedu Nketia could have been drunk at the time when he reacted to the Presbyterian Church�s counsel.