The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, has provoked unease with remarks suggesting his party would repay perceived abuses by the opposition in kind when the political tide turns.

Speaking on JoyNews’ The Pulse, Salam Mustapha appeared to shrug off the prospect of arrests and harsh treatment of political opponents, saying the National Democratic Congres (NDC) were “at liberty to use power in any manner, form, shape they like”.

He warned that the ruling NDC administration's time in office would not be permanent.

“I can assure him they won’t be in power forever and we will do the same thing to them,” Salam Mustapha said.

“They will arrest people and more, they will put them in a black maria that is fine, they can do it.”

He spoke of enduring mistreatment, and even spoke of exhuming bodies of deceased opponents.

“We will endure it, when some of them die, we will go and exhume their dead bodies and deal with them. Even their ghosts, we will go after them,” he added.