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Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Asokwa Constituency, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has called on all party faithful to go easy on Hon. Paul Collins Appiah Ofori, when rebutting to some of his effusions because he is suffering the effects of old age. Acknowledging that discipline in the NPP is weak thus allowing certain people to make baseless claims without being censured; Maxwell Kofi Jumah however posited that the party should not take remarks by the former NPP MP for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa to heart because �what he is doing is as a result of old age�. ��we should laugh over the issue because there is absolutely no truth in the assertions by P.C Appiah Ofori,� he told Adakabre Frimpong-Manso on NEAT FM. Kofi Jumah made this call on the heels of claims by the former MP that Alan Kyeremanten�s defeat at the hands of Nana Addo in the party�s 2007 primaries, did not go down well with then President John Agyekum Kufuor, despite the fact that they all belonged to the same party, resulting in the latter abandoning Nana Akufo Addo when he needed his support most. �When Nana needed Kufour at Tain during our campaign, Kufour deliberately missed the occasion. He refused to show up and it worked against us. Rawlings had already gone to the area and campaigned for the NDC, and it was at that dire moment that we needed Kufuor to discount what he (Rawlings) had said. If he (Kufour) had stepped in, the NPP could have bridged the gap and won the 2008 election. Though NPP did great works at Tain, his refusal to show up resulted in the electorates casting their votes for the NDC,� PC Appiah Ofori asserted. But despite positing that Appiah-Ofori�s comments should be treated as the outpourings of a man past his prime in life, Kofi Jumah wants the party to �call him to order, because irrespective of whoever you support, be it Nana Addo or Alan, his behavior has over-stepped the boundaries of propriety�.