Obed, Mahama lead NDC talks

The Chronicle says two of the biggest names in the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Mahama Iddrissu and Dr. Obed Asamoah on Wednesday led re-organisation talks at Maple Leaf Hotel, Accra in an atmosphere that suggested that the two heavyweights who were at each other's throat in the race for the Vice Presidency had buried the hatchet.

"It was a depressingly low voltage meeting devoid of the pomp and ceremony that accompany NDC meetings of this nature - a national meeting attended by members from all regions and constituencies in the country. The National Re-organsation meeting." Most people attended late and came without party paraphernalia.

The agenda was party re-organisation and constituency spokesman after spokesman showed unusual candour and freely aired their mind, blaming their election defeat on lack of internal democracy. The dictatorial tendencies of the party were completely gone and the threatening repressive shadow of Rawlings or Mrs. Konadu appeared to have evaporated.