A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has stated that he never threatened to resign from the party. He said what he did was to raise concerns about some unfortunate activities that were inimical to the party's bid to win the 2008 elections. Mr Kyerematen who contested Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP 2008 presidential candidate, and 15 others at the NPP primary in 2007, was addressing polling station executives at the La Dadekotopon Constituency in Accra. The meeting formed part of his campaign to establish himself as a viable candidate ahead of the NPP primaries. According to Mr Kyerematen, it was public knowledge that people who were perceived to have supported his move were being threatened, others with ambitions of becoming Members of Parliament (MPs) had some impediments placed in their way, among other problems. He said it was due to the alarm he raised that the then President J.A. Kufuor called for a meeting to address them, and that "when I raised these issues at the meeting, the elders agreed to all these and asked Mr Peter Mac Manu, the Chairman to apologise to me". He said he had the party's welfare at heart and as such did not insist on a second round with Nana Akufo Addo after the first round of the NPP presidential primary at the congress and also travelled with Nana Akufo-Addo throughout the country during the campaign. Mr, Kyerematen promised that if he was voted for as the NPP presidential candidate for the 2012 elections, the polling station structures would be the backbone of his campaign team and not any body or a few personalities. He said he had always believed that the party structures were the most important port of call when it came to campaigns, and that was the reason why even when it was only 10 people from the polling station who were going to vote during the 2007 NPP presidential primary, he included the polling station executives in all his meetings. He said one of the main reasons why the NPP lost the 2008 elections was that it failed to tell Ghanaians the numerous achievements it chalked up when the party was in government, and assured members that the party would tell its success story and also present its vision of hope to the electorate. During a question and answer session, Mr Kyerematen said the claim that the current national executive of the party favoured a particular aspirant was the figment of the imagination of a section of the Ghanaian media. "It is the FM stations and some newspapers that have created those things. This is the reason why I do not comment on issues on radio, even when such matters go against me," he stated. He said there was no way the national executive could influence the over 100,000 polling station executives and other members of the party who would vote to elect a presidential candidate of their choice. Mr Kyerematen urged the polling station executives to start the campaign to win the 2012 election "from today, and campaign like Jehovah's Witnesses". "You' should stop the Alan and Akufo-Addo discussions and concentrate on a vigorous campaign that would bring back the party to power, for there is no problem between me and Nana Addo," he said. He said all their campaign messages and strategies would come to naught if they failed to seek the guidance and assistance of God. Source: Daily Graphic