Atta Mills Is Not Our leader

Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, the former Vice-President and the flagbearer of the NDC will have a hard task ahead of him in maintaining himself as the leader of the party in the 2004 election, The Daily Guide, a private daily.

It says despite the fact that his press conference was a move to project himself in the forefront of the nomination for the presidential candidate, political observers believe that the NDC would want to radically change their mode for the selections of the flagbearer of the party.

A hint of a change in choosing the flagbearer and the choice of Prof. Mills, that he would not be an automatic leader was dropped last Friday March 23, by Hon. Cletus Avorka, former Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, and Member of Parliament for Bawku West on Joy FM, an Accra radio station.

In his interaction during the programme, Hon. Avorka pointed out that at the appropriate time the party will come out to determine "who shall be our flagbearer for the year 2004." The hint drooped by the Hon. Avorka has not been the first of such statements since the NDC was whipped by the NPP in the December 2000 elections.

Some youth leaders of the party talked to after the elections indicated that they were hurt by the hard-hearted approach taken by the executive in selecting MPs for the December 2000 elections.