An aspirant to the general secretary position of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has challenged the two lead contenders for the presidential candidacy of the party in the last election, to throw their best cards on the table for members of the party to decide on who best fits the bill. Mr Buabeng Asamoah said the two favourites for the presidential candidacy slot, Alan Kyerematen and Nana Akufo-Addo, must present their programmes for members to scrutinize and make judgement. In an interview with the Super Morning Show (SMS) that touched mainly on his aspiration to contest for general secretary of Ghana’s biggest opposition party in the country, Mr Asamoah said he is the best candidate to handle the party’s affairs to recapture power in 2012. Whilst admitting that members of the party may have different persuasions about the same issues, Mr Buabeng said he would ensure that internal wrangling within the party is doused. “The first is to quickly re-establish our capacity for internal moral suasion; internal moral suasion that is from the highest level of elders; we need people who can sit people down and moderate their claims of right. You can be right and deserve to be right but you cannot always have it,” he said, adding, the move would “morally engage the responsibility” of the leaders of the party. “At the moment I don’t think it is enough; it’s not there. Don’t forget we are also in limbo, we are still structuring the leadership,” he related. Mr Buabeng was however quick to add that the perceived division in the party is a normal phenomenon. “Let’s be clear that we’ll always have these divisions. If it’s not Alan and Nana today, it could be somebody else and another person. But they must be moderated within a framework that is fair to all of them and the limits must be clear. “When competition gets ugly and becomes uncompetitive and it’s die-hard then it destroys the beauty of the democratic process. “So we want to ensure and sustain healthy competition. We want them to come out with the best that they have so that the party will decide on one of them. And in that case we will ask them to respond to their leadership responsibilities. As leaders, they are responsibilities to the people who follow them,” Mr Buabeng said. He said leaders of the party and persons desiring to lead the party must recognise that “they are not there for themselves and the people have certain desires; the desire of those people is to be led to power.” The NPP goes to congress in February of this year but whilst incumbent executives lace their boots to seek another term, more aspiring executives are working hard for a battle on election day. Listen to excerpts of the interview with Mr Buabeng Asamoah Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana