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The Convener of the Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP), a youth advocacy group within the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) says he would have been highly embarrassed if he was a member of a political group like the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and really counts himself lucky to be part of the governing party. Felix Kwakye-Ofosu says it is not surprising the way the communication machinery of the opposition party keeps making avoidable mistakes and would have been extremely upset at both the leadership of the party and the people assembled as spokespersons for the party, if he was an activist. He was commenting on a phantom document titled �Agenda for Victory 2012� alleged to have emanated from the NDC, riddled with lots of grammatical errors and chronicling supposed plots by the ruling party to divert attention from the infamous Woyome scandal and plans to also rig election 2012. Speaking to the issue on Joy FM�s �News File� programme on Saturday, Kwakye-Ofosu accused the NPP of being the brains behind the document and attempting a �miserable propaganda at their political opponent�. �If you want to say something about your opponent�you want to cook up something about your opponent, at least make it convincing and difficult for me as an NDC member to dismiss this document. But when you pick this document, right from the heading, �Highly Emergency - Agenda 2012��what does �Highly Emergency� mean? It doesn�t make sense in the English language,� he noted. The 12 page document, said to have been authored by Prof. Afful, Dr. Kuntor and Prof. Quartey, details how the NDC intends to alter the biometric registration process, especially in the Ashanti Region, which is seen as the stronghold of the NPP; malign the NPP flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo all in an attempt by the NDC to retain power in the 2012 elections. But Kwakye-Ofosu, who is a member of the NDCs Communications Team, pooh-poohed the possibility of the document being drafted by three learned individuals, stressing that the document is too pregnant with grammatical errors and foul language which even a JHS student would have avoided. �If you want to do propaganda you have to do it well and I am saying that they have to have skilled communicators�this issue comes in the wake of a similar attempt by the NPP to throw it into the public domain that the government was bribing some journalist through NYEP bank accounts�They brought bank account numbers that looked more like house numbers than bank accounts. They could not tell us which banks generated these numbers and they couldn�t tell us who the signatories to these account numbers were and how the monies were paid. Then to cap it all, they get somebody to imitate Baba Jamal�s voice,� he said.