The pro-NPP youth group, the Young Patriots on Tuesday refused to hand in to presidential aide, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, a petition they intended for President Mills at the Castle, Osu, after embarking on a demonstration to protest what they say are harsh economic conditions. According to the Young Patriots, they could not present the petition to someone they described as "Taliban and al-Qaeda" in Ghana’s politics. About a thousand people joined in the demonstration against what they described as the harsh economic conditions imposed on the country by the Mills/Mahama administration. Speaking on Asempa FM’s current affairs programme, Ekosii-Sen, a member of the group Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover said “someone who is doing unholy things against the NPP in the Odododiodoo constituency in the Greater Accra (region) cannot be trusted”. Nii Lantey Vanderpuye who hails from that constituency, according to Titus-Glover, is tormenting and plotting unholy actions against the opposition NPP ahead of the 2012 elections. He noted that someone better could have come for the petition rather than Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, describing the presidential staffer as “Taliban and Al-Qaeda of Ghana politics” who cannot be trusted by the Young Patriots to receive the petition for the president. He stated that the group requested for MP for Kpone-Katamanso and presidential staffer, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo to receive the petition but that was not granted so they chose to read the petition out to the media instead. According to him, Nii Laryea is a more respectable and trusted politician than Nii Lantey Vanderpuye. Reacting to the statement from Titus-Glover Nii Lantey expressed worry and grief saying "I am shocked a statement of that nature is coming from a fellow Ga man." He said if the Young Patriots had respect and good manners for the president, they would not have rejected his taking the petition. He noted that if the NPP and Young Patriots disregarded him, he had nothing to bemoan about, wondering how Titus-Glover, Hopeson Adoye and John Kumah of the Young Patriots would go on that tangent. Nii Lantey hinted that the only crime he had committed in the eyesight of the NPP was to bring development to the area which would negatively affect their political fortunes. "If Titus thinks he is from respectable Ga house, he would not have described me as Taliban and al-Qaeda," he said. He vowed to ruin the NPP in the Odododiodoo constituency in the 2012 elections and make their supporters defect to NDC.