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New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekufful, has replied party stalwarts who say the party�s 2012 flagbearer is incapable of attracting independent voters and must be changed. She says the general cry in the country is that there will be no elections without the two-time defeated Presidential candidate of the opposition party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Mrs Ekufful was speaking on Joy FM and MultiTV�s news analysis programme, Newsfile, Saturday, December 14, 2013. She was responding to comments by Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku this week dismissing suggestions that Nana Akufo-Addo be retained for the 2016 elections because he is well marketed. Dr. Apraku, who managed the NPP candidate�s campaign in 2008, said the argument of Nana Akufo-Addo�s marketability was flawed. "For any [person] to say that somebody is marketed; marketed by who? Whose standards? What is the basis of the assessment of that marketing�? he asked. "I�ve taught a Marketing Course at the university level and my conception of Marketing is not just marketing; the measure of your success is how much you sell of that product. If we have marketed somebody, we should be winning elections; we should be making progressive increases in the margins [of victory],� he added. But the Ablekuma Central MP said, �Having heard the sentiments from the majority of the people � and people have gone round listening to what the people are saying � the general cry out there is that no Nana no vote.�