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Information reaching The New Crusading GUIDE from our usually reliable Castle sources indicates that President John Evans Atta Mills has over the weekend asked the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu and his predecessor, Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu who is now the Minister of Education to resign from their respective positions. The source who volunteered the information strictly on condition of anonymity further disclosed that President Mills, clearly unhappy about the �Woyomegate inferno� which has rocked the foundation of his government, had meetings with the above Ministers and asked them to �resign honorably�, failure of which would lead to their dismissal from the government. Although the source was not able to give us the exact charges against Mrs. Mould Iddrisu, it is believed that the President was not enthused about her decision not to put in a defence when Alfred Agbesi Woyome sued the Government of Ghana which resulted in a default judgment against the State. What baffled the President more, according to the source, was the decision of Mrs. Mould Iddrisu to later fight the default judgment in court on the basis that her earlier decision was borne out of �mistaken belief�. She is also hugely suspected to be the unnamed Minister cited by Mr. Amidu to be preventing him from exposing �gargantuan crimes against the people of Ghana in which they might be implicated�. The news of the demand for their resignations comes as no surprise as a Deputy Information Minister, Okudzeto Ablakwa while condemning the outburst of the A-G last Friday stated �He (Martin Amidu) is also going to be pushed to name them.[the Minister plotting against him�. The A-G, uncharacteristic of him, last week issued a press statement with the explanation that �this press release has been necessitated by three telephone calls from Bawku in the Upper East Region, Burma Camp and Tema both in the Greater Accra Region on the 9th January 2012 expressing support and urging caution for my personal safety because of the cowardly, malicious and libelous attacks against my well established reputation and integrity as a lawyer, a politician and the Attorney- General of the Republic of Ghana by a partisan and rented NDC press group who perceive that I am not performing the duties of my office in their partisan political interests.� Taking the fight to the doorsteps of his adversaries, Mr. Amidu stated �I wish core members and supporters of the NDC who cherish the principles and ideas upon which the party was founded to know that the attacks against me which started in the Daily Post publications of the 3rd January 2012 were planned by a colleague Minister of State, who perceived that my integrity and professionalism as a Lawyer was a threat to the concealment of gargantuan crimes against the people of Ghana in which they might be implicated. An alibi was consequently created on 30th December 2011 to unleash the gullible section of the NDC press on me by the leakage of official documents from my Ministry through the perverse section of a rented NDC press to the pubic beginning the 3rd of January 2012�. Shrugging off the allegation by the pro-NDC press that he, as the A-G, had refused to prosecute former NPP officials, Mr., Amidu wrote��There is not a single criminal docket against any high political operative of the NPP which has been ready for prosecution in the Director of Public Prosecution�s office that I have failed or refused to prosecute as that Minister of State and the gullible NDC press want the whole world to believe. Fairness requires that NDC criminals be prosecuted by me as well, as an independent and impartial Attorney-General, albeit appointed by the NDC Government�, he stated further. In another development, this paper is reliably informed that the much anticipated Ministerial reshuffle has been shelved until after the Parliamentary primaries of the ruling party (NDC). Our Castle sources intimated that the President wants to avoid a situation where persons who are re-shuffled may be perceived as either incompetent or unreliable or both by party delegates thus inadvertently undermining their electoral prospects.