The arrival of Nana Konadu’s campaigners in the northern sector of the country, Daily Guide learnt, prompted President Atta Mills to call off his regional tours scheduled to have commenced yesterday.
The president met party leaders last Friday ahead of yesterday’s tour but had to call it off.
Daily Guide has gathered that the team, which comprises the NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkrugu Yunyoo, Kwame Duut Samuel, Kofi Adams, the NDC deputy General Secretary in charge of administration, Robert Quaye, Sidi Abubakari and Amenga Etego SaCut, a leading member of the Konadu For 2012 Movement, are currently in the Ashanti region soliciting votes for the former first lady.
Information picked up indicated that the team, which arrived in the region on Friday, had so far visited constituencies like Atwima Kwanwoma, Tafo-Pankrono, Kwabre East, Bantama and Offinso South.
Deep-throat sources informed Daily Guide that the team met party delegates in each of the constituencies they visited and officially told them of the former First Lady’s intention of contesting the party’s presidential primaries.
They were said to have sold the message of the president of the 31st December Women’s Movement (DWM) to the delegates and entreated them to entrust their mandate to her at the party’s upcoming presidential congress in August.
Sources told Daily Guide that the team enjoined the delegates to endorse the candidature of Nana Konadu as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2012 elections because President Mills had been a disaster to the party and the country.
Information available to Daily Guide indicated that the team categorically told the delegates that should President Mills be elected to lead the NDC for the 2012 elections, the party would surely suffer a humiliating defeat.
They were said to have promised the delegates that unlike President Mills who had totally neglected the party’s foot-soldiers, Nana Konadu would advance their interest, therefore she should be given the nod.
The team is expected to spend a week in the region where they would visit all the 39 constituencies before moving to another region.
Daily Guide learnt that the team allegedly gave GH¢10 to each delegate in the constituencies they visited. The news of Nana Konadu nursing an ambition to contest President Mills in the party’s upcoming presidential primaries first broke in Tamale, the Northern regional capital, during the June 4th uprising celebration last year.
Though associates of the former First Lady were quick to denounce the news, posters of Nana Konadu with an inscription ‘Ghana’s First Female President’, were soon to be circulated in Kumasi and other cities.
The movement for Konadu 2012 has not relented on its efforts as it has consistently held a series of programmes to drum home the need for Nana Konadu to contest President Mills to become the flag-bearer of the NDC for the 2012 polls.
Nana Konadu was said to have dropped a bombshell when she allegedly told the council of elders of the NDC at a meeting in Accra that she wanted to contest at the party’s next presidential congress.
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