For now, the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, and President John Evans Atta Mills, have picked forms to contest and have accordingly launched their campaigns.
Another member of the party expected to pick up the forms, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has been tight-lipped on whether he will do so or not, except to say that his decision will be announced early on Tuesday May 10, via his page on the social networking site, Facebook.
The General Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says any interested member of the party including the one-time failed aspirant, Dr. Spio-Garbrah, has a chance to do so on Tuesday May 10.
According to him, the picking of forms closes at 5:00pm on Tuesday after which no individual will be allowed to do so. Those who have picked the forms have up to June 1, 2011, to submit them with full payment of filing fees.
In the case of Dr. Spio-Garbrah, Mr. Asiedu Nketia said the latter would have to resign his position as a National Vice Chairman of the NDC by 5:00pm on Tuesday to be eligible for the race.
Political analysts have said it will be unwise for both Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Dr. Garbrah to contest President John Mills for the party’s flagbearership position, particularly because the two are from the same camp of the Rawlingses.
Some have suggested that the Rawlingses should have backed Dr. Garbrah for the position, since both of them are likely to split the anti-Mills vote if they both contest the position.
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