Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper Kwesi Pratt is surprised that the age of Zimbabwe's Robert Gabriel Mugabe should become an inspiration for a huge push within the NPP, for a third bid for Nana Akufo-Addo. He called it "interesting time" for anybody within the New patriotic Party (NPP) to argue that age doesn't matter in the choice of who becomes flagbearer of the party in 2016. In the push for the twice defeated flagbearer of the NPP to lead the party in 2016 general elections, it has been argued by some sections of NPP that if 94-year-old Robert Mugabe is President of Zimbabwe, why not Akufo-Addo who would be only 72 in 2016? Nana Akufo-Addo has contested for NPP flagbearship three times. He contested against then candidate John Kufuor in 1996, contested 15 other candidates in 2007 and contested Alan Kyeremanteng in 2010. He has won two times out of three contests. But despite becoming flagbearer twice, he has been unsuccessful at winning the presidency. He missed out narrowly by about 44,000 votes in 2008 against the late Evans Atta Mills and 300,000 in 2012 against John Mahama. Nana Akufo-Addo is also one of three petitioners who tried to use the Supreme Court to unseat John Mahama after the NPP alleged massive fraud during the 2012 elections in December. This bid failed. Nana Akufo-Addo is currently taking a break from the "hurly-burly of politics". But it has not stopped an aggressive lobby by sections of the NPP to get him to contest again in 2016. He will be 72.