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Two of the strongest lynchpins in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and at one time very strong allies, Raymomd Archer of the Enquirer, and Castle strongman Alfred Woyome, are at each other�s throats! Raymond Archer, who has been heavily bankrolled by Woyome in the past (Woyome was instrumental in the setting up of the Enquirer newspaper controversially owned and edited by Archer) yesterday virtually accused Woyome of fraud and misrepresentation with regard to how the latter managed to secure a whopping judgment debt ruling from a court of Ghana, whilst the latter denied the accusations and accused Archer of being ignorant about the facts. The pair clashed on Radio Gold in Accra yesterday on the controversial payment of huge sums of monies to Alfred Woyome by the NDC government as part of a controversial judgment debt he won under strange circumstances before a court in Ghana. Speaking on the pro-National Democratic Congress radio station yesterday, Mr. Archer stated that it was false of Mr. Woyome to claim that he put up the financial outlays by the companies involved in the construction of various sports stadia in Ghana. He further stated strongly that Mr. Woyome�s claim that he set up offices across the world to facilitate his attempts to secure a loan for the construction of various stadia cannot be supported by the facts, and challenged Mr. Woyome to put up documentary proof that he paid any such monies in his personal capacity toward setting up offices to raise over a billion dollars for Ghana to construct sports stadia. Reacting, the beleaguered Mr. Woyome, stated that Mr. Archer was ignorant on the issues about which he sought to speak.There has been a heated public debate in the media over the payment of about GH�58 million to NDC stalwart, Alfred Agbesi Woyome by a court order for what critics call �no work done.� Speaking on Adom FM on Monday, the former Chief of Staff Kwadwo Mpiani said the then NPP government did not sign any contract with Woyome to warrant the payment for breach of a contract which did not exist.