{"id":275468,"date":"2011-02-04T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=50894"},"modified":"2011-02-04T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T09:14:10","slug":"rawlings-is-a-captive-in-the-hands-of-his-wife-alhaji-bature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/04\/rawlings-is-a-captive-in-the-hands-of-his-wife-alhaji-bature\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings Is A Captive In The Hands Of His Wife \u2013 Alhaji Bature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Managing Editor of the\u00a0<strong>Bilingual Free Press<\/strong>, Alhaji Bature, says a publication by the<strong>Daily Guide<\/strong> newspaper that Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, met with the NDC\u2019s Council of Elders to make known her intentions to contest President Mills for the party\u2019s 2012 presidential primary is indeed accurate. He therefore finds it rather atrocious that nobody in the entire ruling party is being bold enough to step up and acknowledge that fact.<br \/>\nSpeaking on\u00a0<strong>Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosii Sen<\/strong> programme, the known NDC sympathizer insisted that all the executives, including the Council of Elders of the party are aware that Nana Konadu declared her interest to contest the slot but are deliberately putting a twist on the issue.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the former First Lady did make the announcement at a meeting held last Tuesday and chaired by chairman of the Council of Elders, Harry Sawyerr, when the issue of the arrest of some individuals believed to be her supporters and said to be conducting opinion polls on her behalf was being discussed.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat Daily Guide published is the truth and all those people who are running around defending the indefensible are all aware it is true. It is true that the council of elders summoned Nana Konadu to discuss an incident where her agents who were travelling to the Brong Ahafo region to do opinion polls on her behalf were arrested. She admitted that she was trying to test her popularity that was when she told the council of elders (of her decision to run)\u2026This is true! What is this denial? For me, it beats my imagination,\u201d he fumed.<br \/>\nAn obviously irritated Alhaji Bature pointed out that there is nothing fetish or scandalous about Mrs. Rawlings\u2019 intention to run as a presidential aspirant and so cannot fathom why National Executives of the party are dancing around the subject.<br \/>\nHe strongly asserted that the Rawlingses are bigger than the entire NDC party thus virtually everyone in the party is afraid to stand up to them, hence the audible silence by the party hierarchy over current happenings.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026the Chairman of the party will not own up; the General Secretary will not own up, even the presidency itself will not own up, so what is the conclusion\u2026 if they are not bigger than the party? The Presidency will not react; the party structure certainly will not react. So what is the meaning?\u201d he rhetorically asked.<br \/>\nTo him, no one can ignore the contributions of the Rawlingses towards the establishment and sustenance of the NDC, but that does not mean they should be regarded as being larger than the party.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen that is done then the NDC ceases to be a party,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe former host of Radio Gold\u2019s Alhaji and Alhaji programme admitted he preferred that the former First Lady makes good her intention to run since that will not only \u201cbolster the NDC\u2019s democratic credentials, but also serve as a lesson\u201d. He was, however, of the firm belief that Mrs. Rawlings will not run and also added that her calculated ploy to cause disaffection for the presidency has backfired.<br \/>\n\u201cEven President Mills\u2019 fiercest opponents are empathizing with him (over what Mrs. Rawlings is doing),\u201d he stated.<br \/>\nAlhaji Bature then questioned why ex-President Rawlings has been silent over the issue, and posited that the former president is now a captive in the hands of his wife, Nana Konadu.<br \/>\n\u201cThe question on the lips of everyone is; \u2018In all these happenings, why has former President Rawlings kept so quiet over the wife\u2019s obvious presidential aspirations? What is the position of Mr. Rawlings as a husband, as the head of the house, as a former President and as the founder of the party?&#8230;Why hasn\u2019t he brought his wife to order? For his silence, what some of us will conclude is that he is now a captive in the hands of his wife&#8230; Because if your wife is doing something you don\u2019t like, you will come out and publicly stop her. \u2026indeed he is solidly behind the wife. He\u2019s not said anything about it; what does it tell you?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Managing Editor of the\u00a0Bilingual Free Press, Alhaji Bature, says a publication by theDaily Guide newspaper that Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, met with the NDC\u2019s Council of Elders to make known her intentions to contest President Mills for the party\u2019s 2012 presidential primary is indeed accurate. 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