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That President John Evans Atta Mills is going to emerge victorious at the NDC�s congress this weekend at Sunyani has never been in doubt. The question that remains to be answered is whether his challenger, Mrs. Rawlings would be able to garner at least ten percent of the votes at the congress. Come Saturday when delegates of the NDC cast their votes at Sunyani, President John Evans Atta Mills will be on top of the ballot paper, having won the right to that position at an earlier ballot on Monday. What makes this first round victory of the President very telling is the fact that the President�s team actually proposed that Mrs. Rawlings should be given the right to occupy the top slot since she was the first to pick her nomination papers. But this proposal was rejected out of hand by the Mrs. Rawlings� representative, who insisted that there should be a ballot because, believing that Mrs. Rawlings would win to occupy the top slot, the result of the ballot would signal how the results of the congress would go. In the end, Nii Djangmah Vanderpuije who represented President Mills, picked the ballot that won President Mills the top slot.