Communications Minister Haruna Iddrisu has debunked allegations that certain “invisible hands” persons in government are bankrolling the formation of a new political party. Reports started making the rounds recently that some persons who were displeased with the outcome of the August 7 congress of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) were nursing plans to form a new party in a bid to whittle down the support base of the party. Two-time failed presidential candidate hopeful Alan Kyerematen has been fingered regarding the plot but his aides have debunked the allegations and stressed he would give his full support to NPP flagbearer Nana Addo 2012 bid. However, the Member of Parliament for Manhyia, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, provided another perspective to the tale when he said: “I know for a fact and I am going to say it here. I wouldn’t remove the invisible hand of the state security apparatus.” He was speaking on Joy FM’s news analysis programme Newsfile on Saturday. “Because there was NPP going into an election, everybody was saying it’s going to die, it’s going to split at the end of this election. And lo and behold it is the NPP’s most peaceful congress that it has electors to elect its flag bearer since 1992.” According to Dr Opoku Prempeh the formation of the political party is just a way for the party’s detractors to express their disappointment and that he has a strong belief National Security officials are behind it all. However, Communications Minister Haruna Iddrisu said such a comment is rather outrageous and that if any persons should be engineering a plot to divide the NPP, they should be coming from the NPP itself as there has been a long-standing spite between factions in the party. “It has no basis; that is a very, very outrageous claim by the Honourable Prempeh. What I do know is that it raises very critical questions for us all to address. One is whether or not following the successful congress of the New Patriotic Party this is not emanating as an aspect of discontent within that political party (NPP)” as the new party seems to be associating with the NPP. Meanwhile Dr Opoku Prempeh has said the development should not in any way affect the chances of the New Patriotic Party in the 2012 elections. “I don’t think my party should waste its time thinking about this,” he said. “We should never overplay these things; they are not going to do anything in the dispensation of what is going on in this democratic society of ours.” “Parties that break away from NDC or NPP do not stand the chance because these things have been entrenched within our democratic system,” he said citing the Reformed Patriotic Democrat claimed to share the ideology of the NPP but today have its key members sitting on boards of institutions in the current administration. Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana