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A Member of the Communications Team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, believes the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is having difficulty in choosing a running mate to partner their flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo in next year�s general elections because of how ethnocentric the party is. According to him, besides the tag of an Akan party dangling around the neck of the NPP like a hangman�s noose, what seems to have compounded the problem is the infamous �yen akan fo� statement made by the party�s flagbearer a couple of months ago. The floodgates for the scramble for the running mate position were opened in the last week of the month of November when a section of the media broached it once more, including it on the party�s agenda even as Nana Addo was on a listening tour in the Upper East and West Regions. Speaking as a panelist on Radio Gold�s Alhaji and Alhaji programme, Kwakye-Ofosu said the NPP choose a leader who was �deficient� and unfortunately selected a �political neophyte� as his running mate in the last general elections. �The NPP, unfortunately in 2008 chose a candidate who with all respect to him�brought very very little to the campaign. You see Nana Akufo Addo is deficient in many, many ways; some people think he is charismatic but I disagree� and so he needed somebody who would bring a lot to the campaign but unfortunately they went in for Dr. Bawumia who at the time was a political neophyte�,� he said. The grapevine has it that Nana Akufo-Addo may nominate his 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate much sooner than anticipated with four names dropping off the lips of insiders.