Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana's founding president Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah appears unrelenting in his criticism of President J.E.A. Mills' leadership style, claiming Friday evening that all he wants is a leadership that best represents the ruling National Democratic Congress and Ghana. That leader must have qualities as strong as Nkrumah's, and for Sekou, President Mills is certainly not that person he thinks should be leading Ghana. "My comments were and are still in the interest of the NDC party and in the interest of Ghana. I want a leadership that can best represent the NDC and the interest of Ghana. A leadership in the quality of Kwame Nkrumah. He was a Ghanaian and he was able not only to lead Ghana but to lead the whole of the African continent. That's the kind of leadership I want to see and I don't see it in President Mills. I'm sorry if that offends President Mills or the people around him but I'm saying that we need better, Ghana needs better." Sekou, who spoke on Joy FM's Top Story programme in reaction to comments by Nana Bulumia Kwashie, a spokesman of the Nkrumah family at Nkroful in the Western Region, raised suspicion his father's name is being used for propaganda purposes for the presidency. He is rather 'shocked and surprised' that his 'fair' criticism of President J.E.A. Mills' leadership style would elicit the condemnation of a spokesman for the Nkrumah family, saying the family cannot own Nkrumah because he was much bigger than that. "Oh I think I'm rather shocked and surprised that the Nkrumah family in Nkroful has now become a propaganda tool for the presidency. It's most unfortunate and I can see the campaign of intimidation is still going on; from Nii Lantey now to the spokesman of the Nkrumah family or the so called spokesman of the Nkrumah family. But let me add quickly that Nkrumah cannot be belittled to a family, I think Nkrumah was much bigger than that. He was a man who represented a race, the Black Race; the man who represented the African Continent; the man who represented the nation, so it's most unfortunate that people want to limit him to a family, a small family in Nkroful, I think Nkrumah was much bigger than that; we are all his family, we are all his constituency….". Nana Bulumia had condemned Sekou's criticism of President Mills, saying Sekou's comments embarrassed the family, otherwise a very disciplined one none of whose members should be found criticizing purposelessly. He also wondered if Sekou, who had claimed the president was not focused, was himself focused when he criticized without offering any alternative. But Sekou readily pointed to the National Youth Policy and its implementation blues that formed the immediate grounds for his outbursts against President Mills and apparent reason for his dismissal mid-July as the acting National Coordinator of the National Youth Council. He said here was a policy that had been worked on for many years, yet the government wasted over one-and-a -half years to launch the already existing policy, and without its action plan. "The National Youth Policy was worked on for several years, right from 1999 through the NPP in government and I'm saying we had a National Youth policy, we had an action plan but unfortunately the NDC wasted, or our government wasted over one-and-a-half years to launch a policy that was already there and now it was launched without the action plan. I think I have been saying this over and over again so if people refuse to hear then I'm not too sure what I can say but I'm saying that that is why some of us are keen now to change that leadership for the interest of the country and I think that we have the right to demand a better leadership." But Sekou is not done yet, he has a reminder for the ruling party - it must choose who its flag-bearer for Elections 2012 will be by December 2010 or risk a constitutional crisis. He said Article 43 of the NDC Constitution stipulates that the party's presidential candidate must be elected 24 months before elections and thought something must be wrong in the party. "…And that means we need to go to congress before the end of this year so I think the National Executive Committee will have to inform the public what really is going on otherwise then Professor Mills will just be smuggled through as the candidate for the NDC." Story by Isaac Yeboah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana