Atta Mills was not in control

The Guide reports that it has now been firmly established that Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the former vice president who stood on the presidential ticket of the NDC was not his own man.

"His destiny was more or less controlled by some unnamed powerful persons in the NDC who carved several power blocks in the party and were obviously pulling the cash strings."

This explosive information, Guide says, was dropped by the man, who was closest to the former vice president, Mr Willie Ansah who did not hold any defined role in the NDC, but was Atta Mills' personal assistant, writing some of his most important speeches.

Describing his former boss in a radio interview in Accra on Thursday, he said, "Prof. is a perfect gentleman, very humble," and, if he had won the elections, would have moved to get rid of the power blocks who were controlling affairs of the party.

Ansah revealed that Mills is very interested in running in 2004, most probably against Kufuor again, but said "I am suggesting that if he is to go on, he would have to get hold of the party, and run it himself and I presume that is the way forward."