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A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Sarpong has stridently kicked against the proposal by his colleagues for an early congress to be held to elect a flagbearer for the party. Contributing to a panel discussion programme on Oman Fm, he averred that the party will be exerting an "unnecessary pressure" on any candidate elected come 2016. To him, it is seemingly too early for such issues to be broached by the party executives because an early congress will not curb the internal corruption and crises confronting the party. He disclosed that during such elections, the aspirants tend to offer gifts to the electorates to woo them and also, other inappropriate things are done to win the flagbearership. He therefore bemoaned, among other things, the failures of the party which, to him, must be first addressed, calling on the rank and file of the NPP to �seek ye the political kingdom first, then everything else will follow...For this reason, we won�t accept that proposal. My solution is that these things that we have identified, we must find a better method of preaching to them the party policy and principles.�