The 2012 flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dismissed as needless, the uproar surrounding Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’ intended bid to contest President John Evans Atta Mills in the upcoming Congress of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC. For Nana Addo, it is no big deal at all that a member of the NDC would want to challenge the sitting president and that such circumstances had occurred in many parts of the world. Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings suffered heavy bashing at the hands of many commentators and members of the NDC who argued that her decision was unethical, divisive, dangerous to the NDC's chances and a vote of no confidence in the Mills administration. Some have even pleaded with her to rescind her decision. She however has served notice she will go ahead and contest the president. But speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Thursday, Nana Addo said the former First Lady’s challenge against President Mills only attested to the fact that democracy was flourishing in Ghana. He rubbished a suggestion that Ghana had never seen a sitting president challenged by a member of his own ruling party, adding that his decision not to contest ex-President Kufour in 2004 should not be used as a benchmark for the nation. Acknowledging that trail blazing is how history is made, Nana Addo said he did not view the development as strange to warrant the hullabaloo it generated. Commenting on some violent developments that followed the acquittal of 15 murder suspects of Ya Na Yakubu Andani II, overlord of Dagbon, Nana Addo noted that every well meaning Ghanaian was affected by the situation and would wish that those responsible were apprehended. He said however that the Police and the Judiciary were the institutions tasked to investigate and punish people for committing crimes and must be allowed to do their job without any interference. He added that in a democracy, matters bordering on adjudication must be left for the courts and not the Presidency or Parliament. Nana Addo concluded that the only way forward for the people of Dagbon was for them to reconcile and allow peace to prevail. Story by Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana