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Earlier held assertions by a Deputy Minister of Information, Baba Jamal, that President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills had a First Class from the University of Ghana, has turned out to be false. An incontestable information available to Myjoyonline.com from the Office of the President has confirmed that Ghana�s President John Evans Atta Mills had a second class upper from the University of Ghana. Professor Mills had a Bachelor�s Degree and Professional Certificate in Law in 1967 at the University of Ghana. Many reports of the president�s scholastic acumen suggest that he obtained a first class during his undergraduate studies. A deputy Minister of Information Baba Jamal this week buttressed claims that President Mills had a first class, and used that as a basis to cast aspersion at NPP�s flag-bearer Nana Akufo-Addo, who had a third class in economics in the same year at the same university, arguing that Prof. Mills would make a better president than Nana Addo. The NPP flag-bearer, addressing the Tertiary Education Students Conference (TESCON) of the NPP at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi last week, called for visionary leaders who think big, act big and do big things to develop the country. But according to Baba Jamal, the NPP flag-bearer does not have the impetus to talk about intelligence and vision when he emerged with a third class from the University of Ghana. �It is a statement of fact that they (Mills and Nana Addo) sat in the same classroom but one had first class and the other had third class,� he added. �Prof Mills had his doctorate degree at the age of 27 years, he taught law for 25 years and was the boss of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for ten years whiles Nana Addo was just a lawyer,� he said on Asempa FM�s programme Thursday.