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An executive member of the Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings (FONKAR) has told the government of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to start preparing its handing over notes explaining that the NDC will shamefully lose the 2012 general elections. �Listen, we in FONKAR would not, and I repeat, would not, worry our heads to campaign for the NDC in 2012. The actions of the presidency and people like Ama Benyiwa Doe and Allotey Jacobs are enough to tell us that we are not needed in the NDC,� Seth Brekwan, the FONKAR executive member, told Okay FM last week. Recounting his terrible encounter with some well-built men, who were alleged to have stormed the Cape Coast Town Hall last Saturday to prevent former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and FONKAR from meeting a section of the NDC on her �Thank You� tour of the Region, Seth described what happened as �disgraceful, shameful and nasty.� According to him, when he arrived at the venue of the meeting on Saturday morning to make sure that the place was prepared for the programme, he saw 10 muscular men he said he knew very well, hanging around the Hall. After exchanging greetings with them, Seth said one of them asked his reasons for being at the Town Hall that morning, �and just before I could say Jack, the other men attacked and mercilessly manhandled me. They did not spare whacking me�. �All this while Nana Konadu had not arrived yet,� Seth Brekwan stated. He said that the police were late to arrive at the scene to restore sanity. Seth said that he formally reported the incident to the area police who gave him a medical form to access treatment in a health facility nearby. Seth Brekwan accused Madam Ama Benyiwa Doe, the Central Regional Minister and Mr. Allotey Jacobs, the NDC Propaganda Secretary for the Region, as the architects of what he described as �the NDC�s day of disgrace in Cape Coast�. Reacting to the allegations, Madam Ama Benyiwa Doe said it could not be true that she had a hand in the incident, adding that she was out of town on that day attending a funeral. According to the Central Regional Minister, she had had a report that the Hall had been rented out to a native of the town for a function on the day of the incident, �so it would have been more prudent had Nana Konadu�s team given us prior notice of their desire to use the Hall. If that had been done, I believe that the unfortunate incident would have been prevented�. Calling the bluff of Seth Brekwan on his warning to the NDC government to start preparing their handing over notes for a new government after the 2012 general elections, Madam Benyiwa Doe said, election 2012 is a done deal for the NDC in the Central Region. Meanwhile, Mr. Allotey Jacobs has also denied being a part of the event that happened in Cape Coast saying on another Accra based station that, the disagreement would not auger well for unity in the NDC.