“Hilla Limann – 1934-1998…Nation mourns ex-President”, is the banner headline on the front page of the Chronicle. The accompanying story says at 4 p.m., last Friday, while members of the Coordinating Council of the Nkrumaist Family were gathering at their national headquarters on the Mango Tree Avenue at Asylum Down in Accra to plan for the re-emergence of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) as a political entity, one telephone call ‘shattered’ the hearts of all those gathered there. The call, the paper says, was from Dr Edward Mahama, the 1996 presidential candidate of the People’s National Convention of ex-President Hilla Limann. “The ex-President is dead”, the caller told Hajia Fati Salifu Dagarti, Women’s Leader of the United Nkrumaist Family and member of the National Working Committee. GRI
In another front page story headlined: “It’s been tough for the Limanns – spokesman”, the Chronicle reports that the immediate family of Mrs Fulera Limann, wife of former President Limann, who died last Friday, has lamented the fact that the Ghanaian media did not find out how the ex-First Family has been living all these years. A spokesman for the ex-First Lady told the Chronicle during a visit to Dr Limann’s Teshie-Nungua single-storey residence last Saturday, where mourners had gathered to console the widow. GRi
