Supporters of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings have accused Deputy Information Minister Baba Jamal and other close associates of president Mills of adopting Machiavellian tactics to break their resolve and undermine the campaign of the former First Lady. The Friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings (FONKAR) accused Mr Jamal, Castle Communications Director, Koku Anyidoho, Presidential Aide Nii Lantey Vanderpuiye and others of sponsoring a mischievous group claiming to be original founders of FONKAR. Describing the tactics of the Mills campaign as childish, FONKAR at a press conference in Accra Thursday, said “It has become glaringly evident that the Mills Team is determined to use all and any crude means to cast a slur on our candidate, Nana Konadu, and all who support and endorse her bid for the flag-bearership of the NDC.” That they said is evidenced by events Tuesday “in the studios of Asempa FM Station in Accra, where the Deputy Minister of Information Baba Jamal, conspired and aided some unscrupulous persons to pose as founders of FONKAR, claiming to have defected to the Mills Campaign team. Some members of FONKAR who were listening, intervened and exposed those personalities posing as originators of FONKAR, which invariably exposed Mr. Baba Jamal.” The press conference, jointly addressed by the Directors of Communication and Operations of FONKAR, Dela Coffie and Owusu Bempah respectively, the former first lady’s supporters said they were scandalized by the fact that while President Mills was preaching virtue, his campaign team is practicing vice. The group said while the NDC was democratic party, “We, as members of NDC and friends of Nana Konadu are, therefore, surprised at the level of undemocratic tendencies that have characterized the campaign for the leadership contest in the NDC.” The Konadu supporters rehashed accusations of intimidation by the Mills campaign team. “FONKAR is also aware of a series of calculated attempts by certain personalities at the Presidency and in government who are applying intimidating tactics towards our members and radio panelists. For instance, one of our leading members in Kumasi, Abdul Rashid Alhassan, was assaulted by thugs hired by the KMA Chief Executive Mr. Samuel Sarpong, after a radio programme on Ash FM in Kumasi last Friday. “There was also another attempt by the BNI to intimidate our regional co-ordinators in Upper West, Volta and Western Regions. “Ladies and gentlemen of the press, the blatant abuse of executive power to induce, intimidate and lure delegates and other party supporters to vote against their conscience in the forthcoming presidential primary is despicable, shameful, cowardly, irresponsible and a very bad example to the youth of today and generations to come,” the group said. Editor of the Enquirer newspaper, Mr Raymond Archer could not escape the wrath of FONKAR which accused him of leading the Mills campaign team’s media war against Nana Konadu.