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Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has described an official correspondence written by National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei to President John Evans Atta Mills as �a string of lamentations�. Dr. Kwabena Adjei, on January 10th, wrote a letter marked �very urgent�, summoning President John Evans Atta Mills to schedule an emergency meeting within a week to address issues he says has the potential of collapsing the party. Mincing no words in his letter which was copied to ex-president Jerry John Rawlings, the NDC Chair said he has been forced to write directly to the party's flagbearer because he has �reached the limit� of his �patience and tolerance.� Speaking to the issue as a panelist on Radio Gold�s Alhaji and Alhaji, Kwesi Pratt said though he had read the letter a couple of times, he still cannot make any sense out of it. �As for the letter written by the National Chairman of the NDC to the President; Suhuyini I read that letter several times and to be honest I cannot tell head or tail. It is just a string of lamentations and if you read it, you don�t know what he is lamenting about. There�s a portion of the letter which talks about people who struggled so hard to bring the party to power feeling that they are not defended by the party. What does that mean?�It is important as the police say�for the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress to provide better particulars; this is the police language. Because, I don�t see the particulars�Lamentation upon lamentation; National Chairman of a party?" "You know, when you read the letter you get the impression that things must be very bad within the party even though you have no sense of what it is. If things are as bad as they are, as the impression is being created, the question to ask is, so what has the National Chairman being doing for the past three years? So the National Chairman sat down and allowed problems upon problems to pile up for three years and in the end his action to resolve this is to write a two page lamentation letter with no better particulars?...� he asked rhetorically. According to him, a certain level of consistency is important in our national politics and decried the position and attitude of some leading members of the NDC towards the founder of the party.