A member of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ campaign team Dr. David Sunu says his description of President Mills as an impotent party leader was only in reference to his “ineffective” leadership skills and not as was being misinterpreted by the media. He however maintains his position that the NDC is suffering the ineffective party leadership of President Mills. Dr. Sunu, during the launch of Nana Konadu 2012 Campaign on 4 May 2011, stated that President Mills was “an impotent party leader” who had failed to change the fortunes of Ghanaians and therefore needed to be replaced as leader of the NDC. A section of the media has since taken a swipe at Dr. Sunu, accusing him of peddling falsehoods about the President whiles some members of the party have called on him to retract the comments and apologise to the President. But in a statement released on Wednesday by his friends (Dr. Seth K.A. Horsu and Mr. Afari Jones) to explain his position, Dr. Sunu is said to have made the comment with the belief that “an effective leadership would have acted to reduce the present state of despondency among the youth of the party. His reference, therefore, to the President as an ineffective party leader was not ill-intentioned, but to draw the attention of the party leader and all lovers of the party to the inadequacy of the leadership that the President was offering to the party.” The statement goes on to say that he only wished to draw people’s attention to the obvious weakness of the president’s leadership ability. It says “the general discomfort expressed by few party members” was “acknowledged and considered” and that “Dr. David Sunu would therefore wish to withdraw that specific adjective.” Story by Derick Romeo Adogla/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana