The National Democratic Congress flagbearer  John Evans Atta Mills  has chosen John Dramani Mahama as his running mate...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     NDC presidential candidate John Evans Atta Mills' recent reference to the post-election violence in Kenya has raised the political temperature  and the opposition is pointing to an 18% reduction in the budget of the Electoral Commission as evidence that the December 2008 elections will lack transparency...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 49 No 1 | 
            - WEST AFRICA
	     NDC flagbearer John Evans Atta Mills  twice defeated by Kufuor  has been wooing the floaters with some success for over a year...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The main target has been Akufo-Addo  seen by the NDC as the strongest opponent to its own John Evans Atta Mills  the former Vice-President who is running again after two successive defeats by Kufuor...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Mahama may not have made a big dent in the opposition NDC's northern base but his defenders say his name on the ticket in 2004 attracted just enough support to save Kufuor from a run-off against the NDC's John Evans Atta Mills...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The main opposition challenger for the presidency  Professor John Evans Atta Mills  who will make his third successive attempt to win in 2008  has called on the EC to take his time in introducing the overseas vote and to shelve it until after next year's polls...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 48 No 1 | 
            - WEST AFRICA
	     Selected to stand for a third time in 2008  NDC flagbearer John Evans Atta-Mills will have to choose a running mate from a crop of leading lawyers  all from the north...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Having lost two successive elections to President John Kufuor  former Vice-President John Evans Atta Mills is tipped to win the presidential nomination for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at its conference on 21 December...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The NDC leader in parliament  Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin  wants an independent  public probe into the claims; the NDC's losing presidential candidate  John Evans Atta Mills  wants a parliamentary inquiry  claiming that the SFO cannot be trusted to be objective...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    ) for Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)...
 John Atta Mills  who was born in the Central Region  won under 40 per cent of the vote there...