Will the governing NDC and its presidential flagbearer  John Atta Mills  concede defeat...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     In one of the Bank's toughest stances on corruption  its Accra-based Director  John Harrold  wrote to Vice-President John Atta-Mills cancelling the loan and telling him Ghana's status would be downgraded and it must pay $800 000 for the costs of preparing the defunct project...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 41 No 1 | 
            - WEST AFRICA
	     But it is less likely that his baton will be smoothly passed to the current Vice-President  tax lawyer and technocrat John Atta-Mills...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Vice-President John Evans Atta-Mills is likely to be confirmed as Rawlings' chosen successor  at a party congress which must be held by June...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Just before the Clinton visit  without consulting either his party or his inner circle  Rawlings had announced that his Vice-President  John Evans Atta-Mills  was his chosen successor  and would contest the next election as NDC presidential candidate...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Others worried about friction between Rawlings  and his likely successor as NDC presidential candidate  Vice-President John Atta-Mills  who would remain subject to Rawlings’ authority  even if he won the 2000 election...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     It criticises both the party's lack of internal democracy and Rawlings's determination that his Vice- President  John Evans Atta-Mills  should be presidential flagbearer in 2000...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Some of the opprobrium will fall on the Vice-President and annointed economic policy supremo  John Evans Atta-Mills  and his hapless Finance Minister  Richard Kwame Peprah...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This year  Rawlings insists he is ‘going back to the fields' and leaving Vice-President John Atta Mills  Law Professor and former Tax Commissioner  to tackle the country's growing economic problems...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Rawlings has cleverly chosen his vice-presidential running mate  Legon University law professor and Inland Revenue Commissioner John Evans Atta Mills...