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The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho has predicted the ruling NDC party would lose the 2012 elections and subsequently stay in opposition for the next one hundred years should the NDC delegates fail to vote for President Mills in Saturday�s flagbearership contest. The President faces competition from former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings in what is considered one of the most historic flagbearership races in the history of the National Democratic Congress. Already the Brong Ahafo Regional Capital, Sunyani is set to host the historic congress of the ruling party. Campaign teams of the two candidates, namely GAME and FONKAR are making frantic efforts to win some last minute support from the delegates. In an exclusive interview with Citi FM�s Sammy Osei, who is currently on the grounds at the Sunyani Coronation Park, Koku Anyidoho expressed optimism that President Mills would have an emphatic win over Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings; stressing that should the delegates fail to vote for President Mills, the NDC party could go into a long term political coma. �The delegates know what is good for them and they know that if they make a mistake and change President Mills, the NDC will not only lose the 2012 election, but we will go to opposition for maybe more than a hundred years because then it will be difficult for us to come back and tell Ghanaians anything for them to believe and they don�t want that.� Koku Anyidoho dismissed suggestions that the NDC could break up after the congress. According to him, the congress is a rebuilding of the NDC�s image. ��It�s a rebuilding of our image; a redefining moment for us, we would get out of this united. It�s a novelty, it�s never happened before, our democratic credentials stand taller and then it is the NPP that suffers�. Meanwhile, the spokesperson to former President Rawlings and a member of the Konadu campaign team, Kofi Adams is optimistic that Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings will end President Mills� 2012 Presidential ambitions by giving him a resounding beating in Saturday�s flagbearership race. Kofi Adams told Sammy Osei in Sunyani that assurances from delegates plus his team�s underground work has given him enough assurance that the former first lady will get the nod of the party to lead them into the 2012 elections. Security at the Venue and its surrounding has been tightened as the party seeks to ensure a trouble free congress.