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Editorial News of Wednesday, 9 May 2001

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NDC will celebrate May 15, says Huudu Yahaya

The General-Secretary of the NDC Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, has said that the party will surely commemorate the May 15 Uprising, come rain or shine.

"We are in the planning phase currently and would come out with which activities should go into marking the day", The Evening News quotes the General Secretary to have told Joy Fm, an Accra private radio station, on Tuesday in an interview.

He said as far as he was concerned, there was no law that stopped the party and its teeming supporters form marking such a day.

He maintained that celebrating the day did not amount to commemorating a coup d'etat but the principles that were born out of it adding "there is nothing wrong with that". Alhaji Yahaya emphasized that if the party wished to mark the day, it should not be misconstrued as a re-enactment of that era.

"We are saying that those principles which underpinned the era are as relevant yesterday as they are today and it is the same principles that others are calling "positive change" and "zero tolerance", he said.