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The Central Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Francis Ejaku Donkoh, has stated that the NPP is bent on leaving the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) without a single parliamentary seat in the region. According to Mr. Ejaku Donkoh, the NPP is working very hard to claim all the 11 parliamentary seats its lost in the 2008 general elections to add up to the eight seats the party currently occupies in the region. He stated that their checks on the ground indicate that the NPP stands a better chance in the 2012 elections due to the favorable responses they get during their grassroots campaign. Mr. Donkoh made this known at a three-day seminar organised by Central Regional NPP Youth Wing at Jukwa in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District of the region to enlighten the youth on the party�s structures and strategies to be used to recapture all the 19 parliamentary seats in the region. The youth organiser indicated that President John Evans Ata Mills has lost popularity in his own home region due to his abysmal performance and the lack of development the region is experiencing under his tenure of office. He added that the people of the Central Region have now realized that the NDC has disappointed them and will therefore give the NPP, especially parliamentary candidates of the party, the nod to represent them in Parliament for development to come to their localities. �The people of the Central Region have lost confidence in President Mills and his parliamentarians in the region because even though the people gave them overwhelming endorsement in 2008, there is nothing to show or thank the people for giving them the mandate,� he said. The NPP, Mr. Donkoh said, is ever ready to battle the NDC, adding that his party will not sit down with its arms folded to watch the ruling government disturb the peace that the country had enjoyed over the years. For his part, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Adanse Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti Region, K.T. Hammond, who is also a former deputy Minister of Energy under the erstwhile Kufuor administration, disclosed that NDC misused $52 million accrued from the Saltpond Oil field. According to him, the NDC purchased three old rig machines worth $96 billion to be used for oil extraction at Saltpond but the money got wasted because the machine was not used for its intended purpose. Mr. Hammond was reacting to an accusation by Moses Asaga, a leading NDC member, that the NPP misused revenue generated from Saltpond Oil when they were in power. He advised Asaga to rather confront Tsikata who incurred 47 million debt when he was in charge of Ghana National Petroleum Council (GNPC) and lied that the money was used to set up cocoa farms which have not been seen up to date. He charged the NPP youth to make education their highest priority and uphold the ideologies of the party to be able to defend the party when the need arises.