"BNI, hardliners mobilise...NDC moves against Goosie", says the Chronicle in a front page lead story.
The paper says a crisis management meeting by the NDC has been held at the residence of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Joshua Alabi,. to discuss the Goosie Tanoh threat and to prepare a brief for President Jerry Rawlings, who was out of the country at the time of the implosion within the party.
The Chronicle says the meeting was attended by all regional executives of the NDC and rather significantly, by Nana Ato Dadzie, acting Chief of Staff and Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi, Minister responsible for national security, both of whom are not on the party's national executive but who are directly in touch with the President on regular basis.
According to the paper, there is a three-pronged plot, intimidation, smear campaign and dialogue, to deal with senior members of the "Reformed Movement" within the NDC.
The paper says members of the movement who are still working for the government have indicated that they expect dismissals. One member was reported as saying, "we promise that the counter-attack on the smear campaign will be devastating because we know a lot".
The Chronicle says Mr E.T. Mensah, Minister of Youth and Sports and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have already moved to tackle the snowballing effect of the Goosie Tanoh bandwagon with what appears to be official knowledge. GRi
In a related story, the Chronicle says President Jerry Rawlings who returned home on Thursday (2/10/98) on a Ghana Airways flight from New York, has constituted a committee to look at the threat posed by the Goosie Tanoh-led Reformed Movement within the NDC.
The paper says President Rawlings, worried about the movement's threat, has tasked the committee to find out how to confront the threat, adding that the President was reported to be unhappy with Goosie's "bare-it-all" interview on JOY FM 'Front Page' programme.
The President, the paper says, was immediately informed about the interview while he was at the United Nations after the programme. GRi
