NDC to meet over Mills' 'unpopularity'

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is to discuss the seemingly unpopularity of President Mills among the non-voting population in the country, and see how best to deal with the alarming development.

During the recent visits to some schools in the Ashanti Region by the Regional Minister, Mr. Kofi Opoku Manu, it was discovered that most of the pupils recognised Nana Addo as the President of Ghana, instead of President Mills. In the Mampong municipality, for instance, most of the pupils mentioned Nana Addo, former Presidents Rawlings and Kufuor as being the President of Ghana.

The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Joseph Yammin, who disclosed this in an interview with The Chronicle newspaper in Kumasi recently, said it was the Ashanti branch of the party that had decided to table the issue for discussion at the NDC meeting.

According to the Ashanti Region NDC Secretary, when the news came out that children in some basic schools did not know that President Mills was the President of Ghana, his outfit was not happy with it.

Mr. Yammin attributed the unfortunate situation to, either the failure of the teachers to teach the children well, or the children themselves were not serious with their studies, but did not rule out the possibility of teachers doing politics with their lessons, by telling the children that Nana Addo was the President of Ghana.

The NDC Secretary noted that since these children were the future leaders of the country, it was important that the Ministry of Education Service took up the issue, and ensure that both the present and future Presidents of Ghana are known to the kids. He argued it would be wrong for anybody to do politics with what has happened, because, “if it is an examination, the children would have failed.