Those who say the utterances of former President Rawlings are negatively affecting the campaign of the NDC flag-bearer, Prof. John Atta Mills should brace themselves for more. The Special Aide to the former president, Kofi Adams says Mr. Rawlings will very soon launch a major campaign onslaught to help Prof. Mills win the December polls. Mr. Adams spoke to Joy News in reaction to media speculations that former president Rawlings is considering pulling out from the party whose umbilical cord is part of his very being. Kofi Adams said the former President is like a tree in the NDC who cannot fall from its branches and if that were possible, it would signal the crushing end of the party as an institution. A social and political commentator, Owula Mangote, was reported to have raised the issue during a Ghana Television programme, asking if there was any truth in speculations that Rawlings was considering quitting the very party he helped found. Rawlings has publicly claimed that his counsel has often been rejected by the party's current leadership, while many in the party have also found utterances by the former first couple in recent times as 'spanners' in the wheels of efforts by the party to return to power. The issue that particularly drew unfavourable comments from the party leadership were statements by Mrs Rawlings to the effect that the flag-bearer of the NPP was not a trained lawyer because he did not go to law school. But the flag-bearer of the NDC, through his spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga distanced the party from the comments. Mr. Ayariga said the professor, being a law lecturer himself, believed Nana Akufo-Addo was a qualified and competent lawyer. Such public and embarrassing disagreements allegedly precipitated Rawlings’ decision to quit the party. But Mr. Adams told Joy News’ Evans Mensah that “he will be seen very soon on the campaign trail”. “It is true that things have not gone very well but the former President leaving the NDC is far from the truth,” he emphasized. [You can listen to Kofi Adams in the attached audio.] Story by Malik Abass Daabu