The former minister for Education, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has given hints that Prof. J.E. A. Mills would be re-packaged to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2004 election., reports the Daily Guide, a private daily.

Spio-Garbrah said Prof. Mills still has the hearts of many in the NDC as their leader for 2004 except that this time around the party's national delegates congress has to approve of him. He emphasised that even though those who were opposed to Prof. Mills had the opportunity to do so at the party's congress in ho last year, they did not do it because Mills was very popular. Spio-Garbrah who is at the moment the chairman of the party's Media Relation Committee said they have identified 20 reasons why the NDC lost the last elections.

Consequently, a 16-member committee has been set up to tour the nation and help re-organise the party for the 2004 elections, he disclosed.