Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings
IT IS now certain that former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings will contest President Atta Mills for the standard bearer position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2012 elections.
Nana Konadu told students of the University of Education, Kumasi Campus, yesterday that she had the intention to contest the party’s presidential primaries.
Mrs. Rawlings, who was invited to speak on the topic: ‘Multi-Party Democracy, The Challenge To The Ghanaian Student’, made the disclosure during question time after her excellent delivery which touched on the origin of democracy and its challenges.
“I have the intention to contest the presidential primaries but I am yet to declare it,” she said in response to a question from one of the students.
Nana Konadu was a bit cautious because the NDC is yet to open nominations. As a result, she failed to disclose when she would declare her intention.
After the lecture, she met with members of the university’s branch of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC behind closed doors for an hour.
Though Nana Kondau did not mention when she would officially declare her intention, information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that she would formally make her intention known on June 4, 2011, during the 32nd anniversary of the June 4 uprising which brought her husband into political limelight.
The occasion would be preceded by the official launch of the Zongo Women’s Caucus for Konadu 2012, a Zongo-based NDC women’s group which had declared its support for the former First Lady.
It would be recalled that news of Nana Konadu’s intention of contesting President Mills in the party’s presidential congress was first made known in Tamale last year during the 31st anniversary of the June 4 uprising.
Though the former first lady has not officially declared her intention, her men have been on the ground working hard to canvass votes for her.
From Morgan Owusu, Kumasi
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