Race for NDC Vice not yet over

The Ghanaian Voice reports that in spite of speculations that the NDC had already narrowed the search for Prof. Atta Mills' running mate to two, an insider of the party has confided in the paper that the choice race has not started at all. The Voice quoting the source says the choice will surprise Ghanaians as the choice of Prof. Mills did. The paper recalls that before the NDC congress at Sunyani, names such as Dr George Benneh of Legon, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, Mr Justice D.F. Annan and Mr Harry Sawyerr, were among others that were "flying like kites". It says that but as a surprise of the times, President jerry Rawlings choice fell on the then boss of the Internal Revenue Service, adding that choice of Prof. Mills signalled the prospect that the government was going to be tough on tax evaders. According to the Voice, further indications were that technocrats were going to dominate the government. The paper says that the Mills choice really stunned not only NDC adherents but also the opposition. The paper says that it is reliably informed that Prof. Mills is studying the various options available to him and just as it happened in 1996, his choice may be a bombshell.