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It has become apparent to some of us that there is a greater interest in the position of the greater Accra regional chairmanship of the NDC currently occupied by the able Mr. Ade Coker. All of a sudden, a heat was generated about the man and his ethnicity and whether or not he should be retained or replaced. Some groups have even called for a Ga person to replace Mr. Ade. The reason advanced by this tribally motivated group is that the current chairman is not from their tribe. How sad. Why will the youth be agitating for the replacement of a regional chairman who has won elections in the greater Accra region for the NDC? More so when we still have an election petition pending in court? We don�t even need to think too hard to realize the masked faces behind these rented youth making these misplaced calls. Some people who claim to be true NDC, just because of their personal interests, want to take over the running of the greater Accra regional branch of the NDC. They will even use any means necessary including tribal insinuations, half � truths and pure lies to malign Mr. Ade Coker just to further their parochial interests at the detriment of the greater interest of the NDC party and government. These shameless and selfish individuals have sought, using the media, to create the false impression that Mr. Ade Coker by expressing regional views on some of the recent disappointments of MCEs/DCEs etc by the president, and his argument for the party to reward loyalty amounts to working against his own president. We know faceless individuals like Stephen Akwetey who has sold all the Nungua lands, brought confusion among the clans in Nungua, deserted the party when Hon. Kwei Kuma MP for Krowo constituency beat him to party primaries, and now one of the brains behind these misplaced calls. People like this must first purge themselves of all the confusion they caused for the party when they got defeated before they even attempt to compete for positions in the party. They have shown disloyalty to the party and should be ignored with all contempt. We are aware of their activities in various constituencies in the region, but we assure them of a massive defeat. These people should first tell all of us what contribution they made to the victory of the NDC? Indeed, the greater Accra NDC regional chairman is one of the individuals who worked tirelessly day and night in a short period of time to bring President John Mahama and the ruling NDC to power. He therefore cannot be working against the president in the wildest imagination. What the man did was to freely express the views of the regional party chairman in the greater Accra region in the general interest of the party. As a party chairman, Mr. Ade Coker appreciates the implications of certain presidential decisions on party organization at the grassroots level of the party. It is therefore in the interest of the party when the executive freely air their true views rather being sycophantic as Mr. Ade Coker�s critics want him to do. These people think that by maligning the chairman, and jumping to attack him will endear them to the president and the delegates but they will have to think again. Mr. Ade Coker�s support for the president and his policies is unflinching and no amount of scheming by selfish individuals within or outside the party can change that. If people think they can contest Ade Coker and win to replace him, let them wait and convince the delegates on what they can achieve better than what Mr. Ade Coker has achieved in the past four years in office including winning majority votes in greater Accra region for the NDC in the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections. In the meantime, he remains a very able and competent chairman as well as an adroit communicator who continues to work for, and defend publicly the integrity of the NDC party, its leaders and its teaming followers, for which there is no tangible reason not to renew his mandate in the upcoming regional executive elections. NII NOI AYITEY (SECRETARY) NDC YOUTH IN GREATER ACCRA