Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Joseph Yamin has emphatically stated that majority of the Ghanaian supporters who will be sent to Brazil to support the Black Stars for the FIFA 2014 World Cup will come from the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

“If the responsibility is that we should send supporters to Brazil, then I will say it and say it again that everybody in Ghana will go but the majority will come from the NDC”, he stated.

The move, he said, is in retaliation to the sending of mainly New Patriotic Party supporters to Germany 2006 World Cup.

His remarks come a day after Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah told the press that government has rescinded it’s decision to use taxpayer funds to fly 500 supporters to Brazil during the month-long tournament.

He explained the trip would be too costly.

Instead, government has said, they will airlift the fans to Brazil with the help of private entities. Dates provided for the airlifting during the press briefing was given as 13, 14 and 15 June 2014.

Speaking about the composition of the fans, Joseph Yamin pointed out that NDC activists will be given prominence in the list of supporters due to their tireless efforts in helping the party clinch power.

The NDC had been in opposition for  8 years from 2001 to 2008.

“I know what the NDC supporters did to bring the NDC to power. They have to benefit from the party they brought to power,“ he reiterated.

He further cited an instance where the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), during their stay in power, sent 250 supporters purported to be grass-root members of the party to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

“In 2006, people about 250 I'm told, I don’t have any record to prove this. They only counted 7 people from the NDC out of 250 reported”, he recalled.