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...
For the NDC John Atta Mills (who lost to Kufuor in 2000) is partnered by Alhaji Mohamed Mumuni - who since a mysterious car accident in September campaigns on crutches (AC Vol 45 No 21)...
The victim was Alhaji Mohamed Mumuni set to run for the vice-presidency alongside John Atta Mills for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)...
The NDC presidential candidate John Atta Mills who was damaged in 2000 by his closeness to the former military leader Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings is trying to show more independence...
As in 2000 these will presumably be Kufuor and Professor John Evans Atta-Mills who was Vice-President in Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings's NDC government of 1997-2001...
On 22 January Kufuor's 90-minute State of the Nation address to parliament failed to mention corruption at all; the chorus of opposition protests was led by Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress who will challenge Kufuor in the parliamentary and presidential polls this November...
The NDC flagbearer John Evans Atta Mills in charge of the project at the time denies ignoring warnings from Ghana's Washington Ambassador Kobby Koomson...
More defections are expected as the fallout spreads from December's acrimonious leadership battle between Professor John Atta-Mills (Vice-President under Rawlings 1997-2001) and Kwesi Botchwey Rawlings' much-admired Finance Minister from 1982 until his dramatic resignation in 1995...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The opposition New Democratic Congress will start campaigning for the 2004 elections with flagbearer John Atta Mills (backed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings) after he beat former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey (backed by party Chairman Obed Asamoah) for the nomination...
