A few potential contenders include: Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (former Deputy Education and Foreign Affairs Minister) Haruna Iddrisu (former Trade Minister and Minority leader) Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (former Trade Minister) and Hannah Tetteh (former Foreign Affairs Minister)...
Other contenders include: Joshua Alabi former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies; Ekwow Spio-Garbrah former Trade Minister; Alban Bagbin former majority leader in parliament...
A long bet to head GNPC or the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) is Ekwow Spio-Garbrah who made his name as Rawlings's Communications Minister and later Ambassador to the United States...
Also ready to stand is Ekwow Spio-Garbrah a former Education and Communications Minister and Ambassador to Washington...
Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and Ekwow Spio-Garbrah won slots as national vice-chairpersons...
Rivals to Mills within the NDC such as former Communications Minister and Rawlings ally Ekwow Spio-Garbrah have dismissed the government as ‘Team B’...
He is believed to have helped his uncle through a medical crisis in 2008 when fellow party leaders such as Ekwow Spio-Garbrah raised concerns about his health...
Mills seems to have sidelined the former Deputy Defence Minister Tony Aidoo former Youth and Sports Minister Enoch Tei ('ET') Mensah and Ekwow Spio-Garbrah who held the Communications and Education portfolios and was Ambassador to the United States...
Some tip former NDC Communications Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah for the Foreign Ministry; Spio-Garbrah had vied for the presidential nomination with Mills in the NDC's primary elections...
Prominent among Mills’s transition team are: Brigadier General (retired) Joseph Nunoo-Mensah Rawlings’s former Chief of Defence Staff; Paul Victor Obeng his Prime Minister in 1982-96 who heads Mills’s team; James Victor Gbeho Rawlings’s longest-serving Foreign Minister; Betty Mould-Iddrisu who lost the battle for the vice-presidential ticket to John Dramani Mahama despite the backing of Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman; AlhajiMahama Iddrisu Mould-Iddrisu’s husband and Rawlings’s long- time Defence Minister; Ekwow Spio-Garbrah former Communications Minister and Rawlings’s personal choice to replace Mills at the 2006 NDC party congress...