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Despite opening nominations for presidential primaries, the NDC national executives are warning would-be aspirants to properly assess themselves before challenging the president.

First National Vice-Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, says the NDC is going into the 2016 general elections on the track record of the President.

There is, therefore, little expectation that the party will change the man better “positioned” ahead of the 2016 December elections.

“Facts are facts….If you are coming you have to check yourself,” he told Joy News’ Evans Mensah.

Deputy General Secretary Koku Anyhidoho also supports the position that presidential aspirants should be cautious.

“Man know thy self ….the way may be open but may be that is not the way to go” he stressed on Joy News Thursday.

The party suffered “ëmbarassment” after a 45-year old polling station youth organizer, George Boateng, purportedly picked up presidential nomination forms to contest Mahama in the November 7 presidential primaries.

The party says the forms picked by George Boateng are not original because they do not bear the signature of the General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia.

George Boateng [left] picked photocopied forms from a party official at the NDC headquarters in Accra

Mr. Asiedu Nketia also maintains that nobody in the party has the power to give out presidential nomination forms except the General Secretary.

In a swift move, the party has sacked the official who gave George Boateng the forms. The party says the accountant after working with the party for some 20 years, ought to know that nobody can present nomination forms except the General Secretary.

The General Secretary has also described George Boateng as needing psychiatric treatment after he announced his bid to challenge the president and legalise marijuana if elected president.

Taking a view of the developments within the party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo says news that George Boateng had picked up forms took him by surprise.

He wondered how any party member would attack the policies and record of the president using “wild” claims such as legalizing marijuana.

Nonetheless, he assured that the party is open to competition in the presidential primaries.

“If somebody comes he will not be denied” Ofosu Ampofo insists.