{"id":273448,"date":"2011-01-11T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46200"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:11:50","slug":"konadu-gears-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/11\/konadu-gears-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Konadu Gears Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_46201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-46201\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/11\/konadu-gears-up\/nana_konadu-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46201\" title=\"nana_konadu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/nana_konadu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThere is no letup to Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings\u2019 political dreams,  as she and her agents continue to keep her name relevant to contemporary  developments.<br \/>\nThe latest stunt in this regard is a high definition poster themed  around \u2018hope for despaired Ghanaians\u2019 in the National Democratic  Congress (NDC).<br \/>\nLast Sunday January 9, barely 36 hours after President Mills had held  his first press conference of the year, brightly coloured posters with a  life-sized image of the former First Lady were once again sprung on  Ghanaians and hanged at strategic positions in the city of Accra, Kumasi  and other parts of the country.<br \/>\nThe posters, with outstanding features, were at the Ako Adjei  Interchange and Olusegun Obasanjo Highway at the 37 Hospital  intersection in Accra, suggesting an adequately funded image-boosting  project, the kind preceding the outdooring of a politician\u2019s ultimate  intention of joining a major coveted race.<br \/>\nThe message on the poster reads: \u201cThis year we the NDC foot-soldiers  wish everyone in Ghana a new year filled with hope for the future  because of our new expectations- a hopeful future for a bright future.\u201d<br \/>\nResidents of Kumasi also woke up on Monday morning to witness the  hoisting of fresh bold posters with the portrait of former First Lady at  vantage points of the city.<br \/>\nThe poster has a beautiful picture of Nana Konadu and is placed on  the main road at the Kumasi Children\u2019s Hospital area, close to the  Kejetia Bus Terminal.<br \/>\nThere are reports that similar posters of the former First Lady are  scattered across some selected principal streets of the Garden City, the  Ashanti Regional capital.<br \/>\nThe precise group in the NDC that sponsored the poster is still not  known to residents of the city, as no grouping has come out boldly to  take responsibility for it.<br \/>\nHenry Oware, Leader of Movements For Nana Konadu 2012, denied knowing  anything about the posters whilst answering questions on it, in a radio  chat.<br \/>\nAccording to him, though his group did not have anything to do with  the posters, \u201cpeople should not make much noise about it since the  posters would not cause any harm.\u201d<br \/>\nOware noted that the posters did not have any political implications so people should allow the matter to rest.<br \/>\nEarlier, Nana Konadu had scripted a special New Year message which  was delivered through SMS text messages to important personalities in  society including media practitioners.<br \/>\nThat too was crafted around a future of hope and an encouragement to the challenged to leave behind the despair of yesterday.<br \/>\nIt read: \u201cLet us remember the capabilities of our past and build on  it. Put behind despair of yesterday and look forward to new ideas and  lessons for real change.\u201d<br \/>\nPerhaps the most striking segment of the New Year\u2019s message was the  one imploring Ghanaians to \u201ctake the best and leave the rest. Together  we have hope this year. Happy New Year.\u201d- Dr. Nana Konadu  Agyeman-Rawlings.<br \/>\nThe essence of these unfolding messages and posters  cannot be lost on political watchers, especially in the NDC and its  rival New Patriotic Party (NPP), as to the ultimate dream of the former  First Lady.<br \/>\nShe has so far not come out to distance herself from the project;  neither has she associated herself with it, leaving her party\u2019s  supporters guessing and wishing it to be a dream that will eventually go  away or turn into reality, depending on where one stands on the fence.<br \/>\nThe silence on her part to condemn those claiming to be encouraging  her to contest the presidential candidacy of Mr. Rawlings\u2019 own party has  been construed to mean a veiled consent.<br \/>\nAs Ghanaians, especially political turf watchers, keep their vision  steady in a year President Mills describes as an Action Year, they  should prepare themselves for more of such pictorial and textual  materials intended to eventually, perhaps, launch the former First Lady  and President of the 31st December Women\u2019s Movement into a  yet-to-be-determined race, within her party or otherwise.<br \/>\nWhen confronted with the prospect of facing Nana Konadu in a possible  NDC congress later in the year to elect a presidential candidate for  the ruling party, President Atta Mills told journalists on Friday that  the structures of the NDC would decide who would lead the party to the  2012 elections.<br \/>\nThis was a departure from his earlier emphatic stand soon after  coming to power that he will stand for his party in 2012, with  assurances of victory.<br \/>\nThis time, he noted that he would be very satisfied to have served  God and delivered on his promises to Ghanaians at the end of his first  term.<br \/>\nPresident Mills made the statement in reaction to a question as to  whether he would be satisfied to be a one-term president, as criticisms  swarmed in from some critics of his administration.<br \/>\nPresident Mills, who has declared 2011 as an Action Year to build on  the foundation laid in the first two years of his administration, said  Ghanaians would see for themselves the projects during the year.<br \/>\nAsked about his chances of success at the next elections, Mills said  Ghanaians would be better judges of his performance, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve  learned not to mark my own scripts.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><em>By A.R. 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