{"id":275366,"date":"2011-02-03T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=50654"},"modified":"2011-02-03T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:51:18","slug":"im-running-konadu-rawlings-tells-ndc-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/03\/im-running-konadu-rawlings-tells-ndc-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Running &#8211; Konadu Rawlings Tells NDC Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_39456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39456\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39456\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/12\/06\/konadu-for-2012-website-outdoored\/konadu_online\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39456\" title=\"konadu_online\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/konadu_online.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSixty-two-year old Nana Konadu  Agyeman Rawlings has told the Council of Elders of the National  Democratic Congress (NDC) that she wants to be a candidate for the  Party\u2019s 2012 presidential election, according to information reaching  the Daily Guide newspaper.<br \/>\nMrs. Rawlings is reported to have  officially declared her presidential ambition at a meeting of the NDC  Council of Elders held in Accra last Tuesday and chaired by Harry  Sawyer, a former Minister of Education.<br \/>\nHer meeting with NDC  elders was considered as a traditional knocking ceremony, but the party  bigwigs were so shocked to even utter a word. A source at the Tuesday  meeting said when Nana Konadu made the announcement, no one breathed a  word and a sudden cemetery-like silence enveloped the meeting while she  gave a lecture on why she wants to be President of Ghana and vowed to  pick NDC nomination forms when the time was due.<br \/>\nThis is the  first time Nana Konadu is reported to have personally disclosed her  presidential ambition. She had hitherto hidden under the cloak of \u2018party  foot-soldiers who are mounting pressure on her to contest the  flagbearership slot or forever keep her mouth shut in the affairs of the  NDC.<br \/>\nThough the NDC has not opened nominations for its  flagbearer aspirants, it had become clear that for close to a year now  supporters of Nana Konadu have been on a full blast campaign to make her  the NDC flagbearer, but her position as wife of the party\u2019s founder and  a national vice chairman of the party made the issue a thorny one.<br \/>\nIndeed,  Nana Konadu has been touring cities and towns across the country,  campaigning and galvanizing votes for the primaries, but she had  explained her tour was part of party work and not to soften the grounds  for her ambition as was being speculated.<br \/>\nMrs. Rawlings has also  been spotted with the frontline members of Friends of Nana Konadu  Agyeman Rawlings (FONKAR), the pressure group that has a hallmark of  running down President Mills in an apparent quest to make him unpopular  for the flag-bearer primaries he says he would also contest. Nana Konadu  has meanwhile not heeded calls from the NDC leadership that she should  publicly distance herself from the ongoing campaign from the FONKAR  group or better still shelve her gloves till nominations are opened.<br \/>\nAt  a stand-off meeting with the leadership, she is said to have denied she  was campaigning ahead of time. The 2012 campaign posters of Nana Konadu  were recently splashed all over the country, startling party gurus.  This was followed by a campaign website launched on her behalf.<br \/>\nT-shirts  have already been printed that show her as the candidate who will  effect real change, with the front part reading, \u2018I Believe in Nana  Konadu\u2019 and the back, \u2018Change, Real Change\u2019.<br \/>\nThe website, run by FONKAR, has some photographs of Mrs. Rawlings in a pose that is alluring enough to galvanize votes for her.<br \/>\nThe  exclusive photos, 14 in all, captures Mrs. Rawlings dressed in  different attires and posing like a fashion model with a charming smile.<br \/>\nShe  had a well powdered face with red lipsticks and blue eye shadow to  match. In some of the photos, she looked like a professional working  woman dressed in a designer suit and trousers while she appeared in  other photos smartly dressed in traditional \u2018kaba and slit\u2019, the epitome  of an educated African mother.<br \/>\nThough the NDC, as a party, has  made some feeble threats on persons who start campaigning ahead of the  party\u2019s time table and opening of nominations, Dela Coffie, spokesperson  of FONKAR has justified the launch of the website and admitted it is a  clear campaign for Nana Konadu\u2019s presidential ambition.<br \/>\nDela has  also called the bluff of NDC Chairman Dr. Kwabena Adjei who said the  party would fish out and deal with the \u2018unseen\u2019 persons who are  campaigning for Mrs. Rawlings without her consent. Mrs. Rawlings has not  distanced herself from the activities of FONKAR. Though she is the type  that does not hesitate to respond  to issues bordering on her name and  personality, she has strangely remained silent on this matter, leaving  her foot-soldiers to battle it out in the media.<br \/>\nDaily Guide can  also report that several persons who have donated to FONKAR either in  cash or in kind have received letters of appreciation that has what is  believed to be the  true signature of Nana Konadu as well as new year  messages for 2011.<br \/>\nA recently outdoored poster of hers displayed  this message: \u2018this year we the foot-soldiers of NDC wish everyone in  Ghana a new year filled with hope for the future because of our new  expectations &#8211; a hopeful new year for a bright future\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-two-year old Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has told the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that she wants to be a candidate for the Party\u2019s 2012 presidential election, according to information reaching the Daily Guide newspaper. 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