Former President and Flagbearer of the (NDC), has directed the Minister of Agriculture to concentrate his efforts on addressing the fears of maize farmers whose crops are wilting rather than mounting political platforms to insist that the New Patriotic Party will retain political power at all cost. Speaking at a youth rally at the Bukom Arena in Accra, Mahama relayed the cries of maize farmers grappling with an eight-week dry spell which could affect yields. He cautioned, "The whole of Bono, through Savana and the Northern Region, there is a drought. For almost eight weeks it has not rained and so the maize crop is dying. "I would have thought that this is what the agric minister will be concerned with. Instead, he is saying 'We will not hand over power, we will not hand over power'.