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An NDC youth activist and a strong supporter of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is accusing the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Osei Assibey Antwi and other government functionaries of instilling fear in delegates in the Ashanti region by threatening them that anyone who votes against President John Evans Atta Mills will never be happy in the party �as long as he (Mills) remains the President�. Ernest Brogya Gyamfi, who until recently was the deputy Public Relations Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, warned of possible break-up within the NDC should President Mills be elected as the flagbearer of the party at the July 8 congress. Speaking in an interview with Xfm 95.1, Brogya Gyamfi alleged that Mr Osei Assibey Antwi in the company of Education Minister, Betty Mould Iddrisu, Deputy Trade Minister, Mahama Ayariga and a member of the National Executive Council, Alhaji Sherrif told the delegates that voting was going to be done on regional basis �and they will count and know which region voted for or against Prof Mills and that will indicate whether you are going to be happy in the party or not�. Sounding the alarm bells, Brogya Gyamfi opined that the NDC �will be disintegrated� if President Mills is given a second term, adding that �the party will never be united going into the 2012 elections�. Shifting his attention to the termination of his appointment as the deputy Public Relations Officer at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, Brogya Gyamfi contented that his relationship with the former First Lady was what had caused him his job. He however said he was unperturbed and will continue to call for a change of leadership within the NDC. �It is a known fact that I believe in Nana Konadu and it is possible that that has caused me my job. I have decided not to talk too much about the intimidations� Even when we were in opposition, I stood by Professor Mills and the NDC because I believed that was the best for Ghana. If today, Prof Mills has not been able to manage the political party that took him into office very well, and the grassroots base of the party are calling for a change which is what is going to happen in Sunyani, and I believe in that and I stand by that particular conviction. If that will cause my head, there is no problem at all with that�.