Emmanuel Victor Smith, Ghana's former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has disclosed that former President John Mahama never lobbied to be the running mate for late President John Evans Atta Mills.

Speaking in an interview on Neat FM’s ‘Me Man Nti’ programme, he said former President Jerry John Rawlings who is also the founder of the largest opposition NDC 'wanted no one else but Mahama'.

"Rawlings used to say it has to be John; because John and Mills ticket will be a winning team and indeed it was..." he recounted.

Listen to him in the video below