Former President Rawlings is unhappy with what he says is the soaring popularity of the NDC’s opponents. He blames this on the Mills administration. According to the NDC’s founder, President Mills has turned the governing party into an opposition party. Mr. Rawlings, a critic of the president, says it is unfortunate the expectations for which Ghanaians voted the NDC into power have not been met. He was speaking during a courtesy call on him by Cuban Vice President Easterban Lazo Hernandez. The former president claimed some innocent people were jailed under the erstwhile Kufuor administration and yet the Mills administration had failed to “seize the moral high ground and do what have to do, you say the status quo must remain. So today we are in government but weaker than the opposition.” He repeated his accusations of ethnic discrimination and deliberate undermining of independent state institutions by the Kufuor government and wondered why the Mills government could not investigate such breaches in less than 48 hours. Mr Rawlings believes if the government had corrected the misdeeds of the NPP administration, “this government would be flying high; Prof. Mills would be sitting so high for the next 20 years, the next 16 years, the next eight years.” But “today we sit here with the opposition figure as the most popular politician,” he regretted.