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The National Youth Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party has declared that President John Evans Atta Mills� recent statement in Ho that he will hand over power in 2017 confirmed the NDC�s grand agenda to rig the 2012 general elections. In an exclusive interview with Citi News, Anthony Abayifa Karbo said the NPP was aware of the Mills-Mahama led NDC administration�s plans and bag of tricks designed to rig the 2012 general elections in order to stay in power. He urged the Electoral Commission and the security agencies to save Ghana from the Cote d�Ivoire situation by ensuring free, fair and transparent elections in 2012. He reiterated his earlier warning that the NPP will meet the NDC �Fire for fire� if the ruling party attempts to subvert the will of the Ghanaian electorate in 2012. The NPP Organizer challenged President Mills to stop making such false impressions and rather concentrate on fixing national problems such as the current gas shortage, the industrial unrest emanating from the labour front, the escalating youth unemployment and university students� protest against high fees. Anthony Karbo made the calls at the opening ceremony of a three day conference in Tamale which drew all NPP youth organizers from the 26 constituencies in the northern region. The conference formed part of the NPP National Youth Organizer�s working visit to the three regions of the north where he is expected to map out a strategy to recapture the northern Ghana in 2012. He will also inaugurate regional youth committees to boost the NPP�s chances of winning maximum votes in the area. He indicated that the NPP�s victory in 2012 will largely depend on the efforts of the youth, hence the need for the youth organizers across board to stand firm and resist any NDC attempt to intimidate them in their various constituencies. Anthony Abayifa Karbo dismissed what he described as �the NDC�s blanket propaganda� that the NPP is an Akan party and called on Ghanaians to ignore that misconception and vote massively for Nana Akufo-Addo and all his Parliamentary candidates in 2012. He cited himself, the National Women�s Organizer, Otiku Afisah Djabah, Sheikh Tahidu Damba, a national Vice Chairman and many others in the NPP�s leadership front as some party bigwigs of northern extraction who are very influential in the party�s decision making processes. He disclosed his administration�s determination to raise funds in the three northern regions to provide logistics to all the constituency Organizers. Anthony Abayifa Karbo further encouraged the youth Organizers to be vigilant when the biometric registration exercise begins.