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Controversial but popular activist of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hajia Fati Amadu, has taken her strong passion for the party to an extreme level; threatening to end it all if Alan Kyerematen steps down for Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo. Hajia Fati, popularly known as Aliga, threatened to commit suicide if two-time presidential candidate of the party, Nana Akufo-Addo, agrees to the calls for his main contender in the flagbearer race, Alan Kyerematen, to step down for him. The NPP strong woman bared her teeth when she walked into the Nima offices of 'Daily Guide; yesterday in the company of a witness, fuming with anger over the calls for Alan to back out of the race. Hajia Fati, who has been at the forefront of NPP politics for the past 23 years alongside Nana Addo, Kweku Baako Jnr and Kwesi Pratt Jnr during the 'Kumi Preko� demonstration, said she would like to see the four remaining aspirants who were shortlisted at the recent super delegates� congress, to proceed to the next phase of the competition with no one stepping down so that each of them will see where he stands. �I am begging Nana Addo in the name of God that if anyone comes to advise him to talk to Alan to step down for him, he should not agree so that each of them will know his smoothness level.� She rubbished the claim that when Alan stepped down it would foster unity in the party. According to the NPP strong woman, �I will personally take a rope to Akufo-Addo�s house and hang myself on the tree if Alan gets out of the race.� Reason �We don�t want to see or hear what happened after at the 2007 Legon congress of a repeat of that because some people used and continued to use Alan�s decision to step down at the time as a propaganda tool to claim that Nana Addo did not win decisively and that Alan was forced to step down for him,� she recalled. In 2007 at the NPP Legon congress where Nana Akufo-Addo was elected standard bearer, Mr. Kyerematen had stepped down ahead of the run-off after nobody crossed the 50% + 1 required votes. Fati further stated, �We don�t want anybody to come out with excuse and resign; they should let them all contest so that if Nana wins, he wins and if Alan wins so be it for the party to move forward.� Aliga was of the firm conviction that the votes margin and percentage in the scheduled October 18, 2014 national delegates� congress to elect a flagbearer of the party for the 2016 general elections would be wider than what was recorded in the recent special delegates� congress in which Akufo-Addo won by land slide margin.