Former President Rawlings has blamed what he says is the soaring popularity of the NDC’s opponents on President Mills' administration.

According to the NDC’s founder, President Mills has turned the governing party into an opposition party.

Mr  Rawlings lamented that even though the NDC is in power ,the party does not appear so."So today we are in government but weaker than the opposition ” he said.

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.