The National Youth Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Anthony Abayefa Karbo has rejected suggestions that the party does not learn from its past mistakes. A youth activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Benjamin Akyena Brentuo, had accused the NPP of failing to learn from its past its mistakes in the previous parliamentary primaries which partly accounted for the party's defeat at the 2008 polls. He said the NPP was characteristically playing the ostrich as its National executives have refused to address grievances of some parliamentary aspirants. “If you want to build a political party, you don’t wish everybody away; you don’t say what this man is saying does not exist”. On Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Monday, Akyena Brentuo said even though NPP lost the 2008 elections partly because most aggrieved parliamentary candidates went independent, they seem not to have learnt any lesson from it. He added that, “I have identified something about the NPP; anytime some of these things come (up) they sweep them under the carpet and pretend it does not exist”. Akyena Brentuo blamed the situation on the leadership style of the flagbearer of the party, Nana Akufo-Addo, who he accused of creating factions in the party. “If you look at the style of leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo as a presidential candidate, many people have said that the man has a disuniting disposition. He does not bring people on board; Nana is a more or less a fighter”. Some polling station executives in Tema West Constituency of the NPP are up in arms against the party leadership for allegedly trying to impose the sitting MP Irene Naa Torshie Addo on the constituents by intimidating competitors to pull out of the race. The concerned polling station executives as they are called accused the Member of Parliament of creating divisions within the party; a situation they said can derail the party’s chances of coming back to power in the 2012 elections. Anthony Karbo said the party follows rules and regulations and will ignore allegations that lack substance. On the Tema West issue, Anthony Karbo said Dr. Donkor one of the aspirants was disqualified because he did not meet the party’s criteria to contest for the parliamentary candidacy. Story by: Adwoa Gyasiwaa/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana