Eastern regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Mr. Julius Debrah says former President Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings must be told in the face that the party is nobody’s property. The leadership of the party in some regions have thrown their weight behind President Mills after the party's first Vice Chairperson and wife of former President Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings resigned her position to contest sitting President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills for the flagbearership position as the party goes to congress in July this year. But a furious Mr. Debrah who was speaking on Asempa FM’s late afternoon current affairs programme Ekosii Sen said members of the NDC are not zombies who will follow whatever ex-president Rawlings and his wife say only because he is the founder of the party. He contends that a party is a society where members join voluntarily and that even though there could be a founder, he or she must accord the membership some level of respect and not be treated with contempt and indignation. “The Eastern Region is not going to declare support for anybody; we all already know that it is Prof. Mills we support and we will vote for him to the shock of everyone. We have entertained Rawlings and his foolhardiness for far too long. He should have told all of us that when he was criticizing the President for not performing, he was only preparing the grounds for the wife to contest President Mills he queried.” He said the NDC will be making a huge mistake and giving ammunition to its opponents if Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is handed the leadership of the party as Presidential Candidate. “Have you forgotten it was Nana Konadu who told the whole world that what happened to Selassie Jentu at the Castle was an identification haircut when it was alleged that the young man was dating her daughter? How will the NPP portray us in the public if we present this person who was not even the President but could order for such a thing to happen in Ghana? I will not support Konadu today, tomorrow or even the next, we don’t have time for rubbish anymore”. Mr. Julius Debrah who is also the Chief Executive of the Ghana Tourist Board says he will resign from his position as regional chairman of the NDC should Nana Konadu win even 10 votes at the Sunyani Congress. “As a political party we were minding our own business when President Rawlings told all of us not to contest President Mills by 2000 even when guys like Goosie Tanor and others wanted to contest the Presidential Candidature of the NDC because he (Mills) was a trust worthy and humble person and we did that. So how come that your (Rawlings) wife wants to contest the same person when he is now the sitting President? If we go to the congress and she wins, I will resign from the Chairmanship position to tell everyone I’m not a zombie record this tape.” He advised the party’s founder and his wife to allow the President to have the space to work in making Ghana a better nation. Story by Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong/Asempa fm/Ghana