Some National Democratic Congress (NDC) executives in the Volta Region have raised red flags over the purported resolution by some executives in the region to support President Mills’ candidature for the 2012 General Elections. The executives warn that such a resolution which they believe was drafted in Accra will have debilitating effects on the party’s quest to mend the cracks as they prepare towards the elections. The Volta Regional branch of the NDC on Tuesday signed an acclamation to support the candidature of President Mills for the 2012 General Elections. But some party members who were at the meeting have questioned the rationale behind the decision. Wisdom Mensah, the Youth Organizer of the party in the North Dayi Constituency told Adom FM, some party executives who do not support the resolution have been sidelined and excluded from all meetings and party functions. He said since he declared support for the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings - who has expressed interest in leading the party to the 2012 elections – he has been treated with contempt. Mr. Mensah described the decision to declare support for President Mills as divisive and a recipe for defeat in the elections. He wants the party to resolve concerns raised by former President Rawlings if the NDC wants to hold on to power. Sylvester Kafui, a Propaganda Secretary of the party in the Ketu South Constituency who was also at the meeting accused the Volta Regional executives of hounding people with opposing views out of the party. Speaking on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, Mr. Kafui said he was attacked for trying to make an input in the resolution. “We also had an input to make,” he said referring to other party executives with dissenting views, insisting that “the resolution was even brought from Accra. It was brought from Accra handed over to our chairman to read finally. So we saw that there was something wrong with that and that was to deepen the cracks in the party.” Mr. Kafui said they are branded as Rawlings’ boys and marginalized when they offer a direction to how the impasse should be resolved. He said the party cannot ignore the former President because he is still relevant, adding “there is a deliberate attempt to ignore [Rawlings].” But the Volta Regional Chairman of the party Kwesi Aboagye has confirmed that the party executives chose to sideline those who hold divergent views because there was no need to include them when they do not share in the larger interest of the regional executives. Mr. Aboagye said they “have no role to play there” even though nobody is preventing them from participating in party activities. He said these individuals have their parochial interests which are inconsistent with the interest of the group and therefore must be allowed to chart their own path. He stated that the former president has contributed immensely to the success of the party and that it will be misplaced for anyone to say that he has become insignificant in the scheme of things. Mr. Aboagye said the fact that the former president is sharing his views on how the party should be managed does not mean there is any division. He added that the party executives in the region decided to support President Mills in order to allow him to focus on his Better Ghana agenda. The Volta Regional Minister Mr. Joseph Amenowode who led the party executives in the region to accept the resolution said the decision was largely accepted by party functionaries. The minister believes the declaration would cause no harm to the unity of the party. He said “in every organization, even in the highest heavens, there is dissent, yes, out of the about 240 or so who converged there, I would admit that there could be about 10 who may not be in the interest of it but that is the beauty of democracy for you.” Mr Amenowode explained that people had the right to sign or reject the declaration, stressing that no executive was coerced in any form. Story by Derick Romeo Adogla/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana