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The incumbent Chairman of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, says he did not expect his first national Vice Chairman, Fred Oware, to contest him. Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey told TV3�s Hot Issues on Saturday that he was in a haze about why his first Deputy, who had earlier promised not to run for the Chairmanship slot so long as he (Obetsebi-Lamptey) was in the race, could dishonour his own promise. ��Initially what I heard was that he [Oware] was doing it because he said I had told him that I was not going to contest, ok, or misheard me, ok, and he told me that if I was going to contest then he wouldn�t�, Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey said. �So I corrected him and told him that I�m sorry, whatever he heard was obviously a miscommunication but I�m going to contest�. Subsequently I expected that he will not contest but even the bug bites you. You decide that you too you want to be boss small so it�s ok, there�s not a problem with it�. He said Mr Oware ��has to come now and say what it was that he would have done had he been chairman or what it is that he�s going to come and do once he�s chairman, then the party will judge�. Fred Oware is seeking to topple his boss at the party�s forthcoming March national delegates� Congress. Others contesting Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey include businessman Paul Afoko and former national vice chairman Stephen Ntim.