Mills is not working against any NPP candidate

December 5, 2007 PRESS RELEASE The Office of NDC Leader and Presidential Candidate, John Evans Atta Mills, has read with distaste the impression that is created in Today’s edition of The Statesman, that the Leader and Presidential Candidate perceives “Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the greatest threat to John Evans Atta Mills’ chances of winning the presidency” hence moves on the part of the NDC Leader to scuttle the chances of Akufo-Addo to lead the NPP. The Leader and Presidential Candidate of the NDC, for the records, and with emphasis, respects all the persons vying to lead the NPP. However, he does not perceive any one of them to be a threat to his chances of getting the majority of the electorate on his side to want to dissipate his energy scheming to get any such person not to emerge winner. With the NPP, making money the main factor in the run-up to its congress, it is quite clear that should anybody want to work against any of the 17 aspirants emerging winner, the person would have to dole out more money than is being doled out. Obviously, John Evans Atta Mills and NDC do not have the kind of money that would be needed to undertake any such operation. The NDC Leader and Presidential Candidate is busying himself with reaching out to the discerning electorate via his innovative house-to-house campaign and does not have the time to burden himself with the goings-on within the NPP. If Nana Akufo-Addo has reason to believe that anybody or group of persons are working against his bid to lead the NPP, it would do him a great deal of good if he looks within his party and stop looking in the direction of the Office of the NDC Leader. John Evans Atta Mills is more than ready to pitch his, credentials, enviable academic and public service record, his competence, as well as his vision for Ghana against what any of the 17 NPP aspirants will bring to the table. If the story carried by The Statesman is really a result of its “intelligence works” then the paper better look again at its intelligence gathering procedure because it is very faulty. If on the other hand, the story is meant to mischievously shore up the fortunes of Nana Akufo-Addo, then the paper must look for other ways of doing that and not draw John Evans Atta Mills and his Office into the happenings within NPP. Koku Anyidoho (In-charge, Communications)