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Acting Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Solomon Nkansah, has labeled former New Patriotic Party Director of Communications and former deputy Finance Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor�s administration, Nana Akomea and Dr. Akoto Osei respectively as comic reliefs. According to him, they offer nothing except staging �concert parties� whenever they criticize NDC government. Assessing the one year administration of President Mahama, the opposition NPP through Hon. Anthony Akoto Osei advised Ghanaians to brace themselves for tougher times in 2014 regardless of President John Dramani Mahama�s optimism that this year will mark the start of good things for Ghanaians. At a press conference held in Accra, Minority Spokesperson on Finance referred to the increase in VAT rates, Inflation and other economic indicators to back the point that 2014 was going to be tough. He thus graded President Mahama to have performed abysmally in his first year in office. Nana Akomea, on his part, asserted on the same platform that the ruling NDC government used the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) program as an avenue to �steal the tax payers� money�. According to him, GYEEDA was used as a conduit to �collude, connive, create, loot and share� state resources, therefore, the recent cancellation of contracts under GYEEDA as well as attempts by the government to retrieve over Ghc55 million cedis paid to the service providers deserves no commendation. But addressing the stance of the two leading NPP figures, Solomon Nkansah, speaking on OkayFM�s �Ghana Decides� programme, derided them as performers on a �concert party� stage. He stressed that the cancellation of GYEEDA contracts shows the president is fully committed to fighting corruption. ��.If you did not hear what I have said, I am saying that Nana Akomea and Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei are staging �concert party� in Ghana because the President has given directives for the cancellation of the GYEEDA contracts with its service providers while the Attorney General has taken up the report for possible prosecution�.and mind you, the President is not a court of Ghana. NPP must acknowledge the determination of President Mahama to fight corruption and stop accusing the President unnecessarily of being corrupt,� he stated.