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The Upper West Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Mr. Adams Bandanaa, is in serious contention with the executives of the party as they battle over the possession of the party�s car and other logistics. According to the inspector in-charge of the Wa West District Police, Augustine Agboso, the chairman was given a four-wheel drive and a motorbike to campaign for the party in the 2012 general elections which the executives were insisting he handed over to them for servicing. He told the Ghanaian Times last Saturday that the chairman had refused to do so though he knew the order was from the national headquarters. He said Mr. Bandanaa�s refusal compelled the national Director of Operations, Mr. Seth Gaisie-Amoah to report the case to the district police who then impounded the vehicle and kept it in the custody of the regional police command on Sunday. Explaining his part of the story to the Ghanaian Times, Mr. Bandanaa said though he was informed by his executives, particularly, Mr Gaisie-Amoah to hand over the car, he was expecting a letter or any form of a documentation that suggested so. �However, they could not produce anything of that sort but told me that the move was a nationwide programme and as such I must oblige to hand over the car� He maintained that he had expected Mr. Gaisie-Amoah to have come to him directly rather than reporting the case to the police saying �that really upset me. I expected him to have acted in a more diplomatic way�. In an interview with the 'Times', Mr Gaisie-Amoah reiterated an explanation given earlier by the national secretary that he was only acting on a decision agreed by the executives of the party. He said as the director of operations, he was mandated by the executives to recall all the party�s vehicles for servicing. �But my task has become herculean because of Mr. Bandanaa�s reluctance to hand over his. In fact, there is a similar situation I am facing particularly in the three northern regions� he said.