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The Campaign Team of the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has not missed an opportunity to trumpet their concerns about loopholes in the leadership of the party. The team had described the recently held National Delegates� Congress in Sunyani which saw President Mills romp home to a landslide victory as the flagbearer of the party as not free and fair. According to them, the Mills� campaign team used negative tactics to ensure that President Mills was re-elected. Campaign Coordinator of the Nana Konadu for President 2012, Numburr Berrick, in an interview on Ade3 Akye Abia Morning Show on Okay FM 101.7, reiterated that the NDC is heavily bruised, contrary to speculations that the former First Lady�s campaign team feels �bruised� hence their public outcry. He stressed that it was rather the NDC party as a whole that was �bruised� and not individuals within their camp. �If anybody tells you that the NDC party is not bruised, that person is not telling the truth. The party is left heavily bruised because of the attitude and actions of government appointees in this whole affair (referring to congress),� he said. Mr. Berrick described what happened at the NDC congress as cowardly, adding that the fact that the congress ended peacefully should be attributed to the Konadu Team. According to him, some of the incidents at the congress called for confrontation but they kept their cool since they felt that could only inure to the benefit of the NPP. �What happened in the stadium was cowardly and I will attribute the peace that this congress ended with to the Konadu team because some of the things that happened there needed confrontation but we thought that this was going to inure to the benefit of the NPP so we decided to just ignore it. There are instances where they were the ones directing delegates to thumbprint and when I contacted the EC official, he told me that was the only place the ink pad was so there was nothing he could do. I just looked on and walked away because there was no need protesting since it will turn into something else; and as I said if the congress ended in disarray, it will be in the benefit of the NPP. But this shouldn�t happen again.� �No other political party should adopt the tactics that we (NDC) took, that is not the right way for people to exercise their democratic rights. When you move people up in a certain direction, it is ordering not freedom of expression,� he stated. He urged President Mills to take steps to address the concerns raised by Nana Konadu and her team so that the party, in unity front scale over the NPP in 2012.