Jasikan (V/R), July 10, GNA-Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, one of the NPP presidential aspirants has stated that it was imperative for the Party to choose a leader with a clean record to lead the to victory in 2008.

He said the Party's flag bearer should be the one who had gone through the political mill and had gained enormous experience to bring good results to the Party after the elections. Dr. Apraku, who was interacting with the Buem Constituency executives of the Party at Jasikan said anything short of the above qualities could spell doom for the Party because the 2008 elections would be "a hard to fight one".

He stated that he had been deeply involved in the formation of the Party, including the writing of the Party's manifesto, constitution and designing of its symbol and had got a lot of experience, by virtue of the various positions he occupied in Parliament thus the right person for the Party.

Dr Apraku revealed that he had toured nine out of the ten regions and was convinced that he had the largest support from the Ashanti Region and hoping to get that of the Volta Region to be sure of victory.