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President John Mahama has said direct criticisms hurled at him and his administration by the General Secretary of the Convention People�s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet at the governing National Democratic Congress�s national delegates� congress, smack of �incurable selective myopia.� Delivering the CPP�s solidarity message at the NDC�s congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi on Saturday, Mr Greenstreet said frontally to the President and the NDC that: ��Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.� �Continuous �dumsor dumsor,� corruption from top to bottom, left right, inside-out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people,� Greenstreet added. Accrodign to him, �the most painful thing of all is that you don�t care,� as he implied that the party would lose the 2016. ��Make sure you�ll elect executives who will be able to steer your party�s affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3� added the CPP General Secretary. When the President mounted the stage to address the congress, he said he had had to �restrain� himself from �frontally� responding to Greenstreet, since in his opinion, certain politicians have allowed their view to be blurred by incessant partisanship. �Government is a continuum and I�m therefore not one to play the blame game, and I�ve therefore had to restrain myself from responding, frontally, to the solidarity message that was given by our colleagues from the CPP. �Petty partisanship is the bane to our democracy and the wish to acquire power becomes so insatiable that we put on politically coloured lenses and make it difficult for us to see what the reality is. "It is said that selective myopia is incurable and so I�m not going to stand here and attempt to cure selective myopia,� Mahama said in response to Greenstreet�s criticism. The President urged the delegates to make the right choice of leadership for the party through their votes as they confirm their dedication to transforming Ghana�s economic fortunes. ��We must elect people who will stand and defend the principle and the core values of our great party the NDC�.When this is done on January 7, 2014, our great Akatamanso party will once again sing praises to the Almighty God for giving us a great victory because we are determined to transform the economic history of our dear nation for the benefit of [the] present generation and generations unborn�.