A youth activist of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a loyalist of the Rawlingses, Mohammed Abdulai Mubarak also known as Ras Mubarak has denied ever describing President J.E.A. Mills as incompetent. “I have never said the president is incompetent, never! I have been very critical of some decision (by President Mills) but I have never used that word” he added. Ras Mubarak, avowed critic of the Mills administration supported Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings' candidature for the flagbearership position of the party citing the lack of coherence in the management of the country’s affairs and the growing disunity in the NDC as reasons for his position. He urged NDC delegates to vote against President Mills because he did not provide any impetus for change, a situation he noted would inure to the benefit of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). However, Ras Mubarak apologized to President Mills for the unpleasant comments he had made against him especially during the ruling party’s flagbearership contest in Sunyani. The Norway-based youth activist of the NDC is now back in the country to contest the NDC’s primaries in the Ablekuma North Constituency. Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Friday, Ras Mubarak said his criticisms of the performance of the Mills administration may have been misunderstood. He explained that “there is a difference between personal attacks and political attacks. When people expressed opinions that are seen to be too divergent to the status-quo it is seen as an insult”. Ras Mubarak underscored the need for the NDC to move as a united party in its bid to retain power in 2012. “It is not in anybody’s interest if the NDC fails; the people of Ghana expect the NDC to succeed. The people who put us there want us to get it right and we cannot get it right if we are hugely divided” he bemoaned. He warned the NDC may allow the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to come back to power undeservedly if they don’t put their house in order ahead of the 2012 general elections. The aspiring parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma North opined that the NDC must put the misunderstanding that erupted during the congress behind them and focus on delivering on the Better Ghana Agenda. Ras Mubarak observed politics is a contest of ideas hence “those of us who have been were very critical of the government should be loud enough in commending the government when it does something right”.