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The Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, (NDC) Richard Quashigah has dismissed the latest Synovate poll that puts Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of President Mills if elections were held in May. Speaking on the Citi Eyewitness News on Tuesday May 31, Richard Quashigah said, he suspects some political sponsors are behind the regular polls from Synovate. The research group in their latest poll for the month of May still has Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of President Mills, with 43 percent if elections were held in May, whilst president Mills has dropped by some three points to 38 percent from last months. According to the survey 70 percent of respondents said president Mills will win the NDC July presidential Primaries, whilst 14 percent said Nana Konadu will win. Respondents were however neither delegates nor necessarily NDC members. However, Richard Quashigah has questioned the research methodology describing it as not credible and laughable. �I strongly suspect that this group may have some political sponsors. I do not take what they bring out seriously because I find it laughable. They say they conducted a poll about the NDC congress and look at the answers they gave us, they did not talk to delegates, they are even unsure of the people that they talked to whether they are NDC members or not and yet they draw a conclusion that President Mills was going to win by 70 or more percent�. �Look at the variables that were used, look at the way the whole thing was conducted and you would know if this is a credible thing�. Meanwhile, the Director of Communications for the opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akomea has admonished the NDC to stop disputing every poll that comes out and rather take them in their stride like the NPP is doing. �You have to take it in your stride if it favors you, you see what you are doing and improve upon it and if does not favour you, you try and see what you are not doing well and improve upon it, so whichever the results are it encourages us. �We (NPP) take all the polls in stride we don�t fight with any of them, our strategy is going very well and if we have polls like this that tells us that we are on the right course it just encourages us so we will keep on doing what we are doing".