Reform congress to reveal top NDC defectors

The Dispatch writes that the main attraction to the August 1-5 National Congress of the Reform Party, will not be the election of Mr. Goozie Tanoh, as the party's flagbearer, rather, the outdooring of several top members of the NDC who have defected and are in the background.

A leading NDC Member of Parliament, now with Reform is reported as saying that the defectors have remained in the background for good reasons but the Congress is a good time for them to come out.

Dispatch says with 75 out of 133 sitting MPs re-nominated as at Thursday by the party hierarchy, the fate of the remaining 58 are so undecided that a few have pleaded with the Reform to postpone its selection primaries for their consideration if the NDC rejects them.

The paper states that a source close to the Reform explained that the party had postponed its primaries to concentrate on the Congress but "if it coincides with the political game plans of some NDC MPs who want to contest the primaries, why not?"