Reform fever! / Reform congress shakes NDC

The banner stories of 'The Ghanaian Chronicle' and 'the Dispatch' focuses on the threat posed by the National Reform Party (NRP) to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Ghanaian Chronicle in its story says the wave of fear and apprehension that gripped the leadership of the NDC after the secession of the Reform Movement two years ago to form the National Reform Party (NRP), has returned to haunt it in the run- up to the December 2000 elections.

The paper says the likely presence of Mr. Goosie Tanoh, the NDC's bogey man in the Presidential race, would be no comfort either for the party that is already hit by agitation over vexed issues of the selection of a vice-presidential candidate and the imposition of parliamentary candidates.

The story says that currently, several non-retained NDC MPs who are peeved at the decision to dump them are said to be trooping to the NRP.

Chronicle reports that the mood of NRP supporters and sympathisers at the party's heavily patronised congress that opened on Tuesday at the University of Ghana, Legon, typified optimism and hope.

Tanoh, in an interview with the paper on Wednesday said the party was exploring areas where it could co-operate with other opposition parties to wrest power from the NDC in the December elections.