{"id":275929,"date":"2011-02-12T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=52001"},"modified":"2011-02-12T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:04:17","slug":"betty-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/12\/betty-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty For President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_39559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39559\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39559\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/12\/06\/betty-dragged-to-court-over-missing-20000\/betty_iddrisu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39559\" title=\"betty_iddrisu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/betty_iddrisu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Mould-Iddrisu<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nEducation Minister Betty Mould-Iddrisu has announced her desire to become President of Ghana.<br \/>\nShe  however did not make it clear whether or not she would be contesting  the flag-bearer primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<br \/>\nBetty,  in an interaction with Joy FM\u2019s Bola Ray on Thursday evening, said she  \u201cabsolutely\u201d desires to become President or at least Vice-President of  Ghana and that her years of experience in politics could help in  achieving that presidential ambition.<br \/>\nBetty, a former Attorney  General and Minister of Justice, said her hallmark had always been to  aspire to the topmost position wherever she found herself and she had  always encouraged people to adopt that attitude in life.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I was  teaching, I also told my students always go for the top; don\u2019t be  satisfied with the third or second position \u2013 aim for the sky,\u201d she  added.<br \/>\nTouching on her political experience, Betty said she felt  good being Ghana\u2019s first female Attorney General: \u201cI was Ghana\u2019s first  female Attorney General, you know, how good can that be? You know, to  get right to the top of your profession\u2026I can tell you that was a very  difficult time but I made it; I actually made it.\u201d<br \/>\nMrs.  Mould-Iddrisu was proposed by both ex-President Rawlings and his wife  Nana Konadu as a preferred running mate to the then candidate John Evans  Atta Mills for the 2008 general elections.<br \/>\nThe candidate however  settled on John Mahama but appointed Betty as Minister of Justice and  Attorney General the moment the NDC took over government.<br \/>\nHer interview with Bola Ray touched on other issues including her school days and matrimonial home.<br \/>\nShe  conceded that she was under tremendous pressure as Attorney General,  saying that her new job as Education Minister was not as tedious as  being the Attorney General.<br \/>\n\u201cMy day now is less frenetic than it  used to be when I was Attorney General. With the Attorney General\u2019s  position, you can get called from 5 am. When I open my eyes, I might  have as many as 20 or 30 missed calls from radio stations\u2026yeah! Radio  stations from all over the country.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd they get very indignant;  not all of them are as nice as you Bola. You know some of them get  indignant when you are sleepy at 6am. So I\u2019m [better] now and I try to  exercise, I work out a couple of times a week before I go to work,\u201d  Betty added.<br \/>\nShe said it had always been her dream to serve Ghana  and strive for success as a woman:  \u201cI\u2019ve always been driven; I\u2019ve  always had the desire to do a lot for my country, especially, for the  women of my country \u2013 to be a role model, you know, to teach the way, to  show women that they can achieve the almost impossible.<br \/>\n\u201cI come  from that background where the women strive for success; where the women  are actually the hub of the family. And I wanted to transcend family  and go into the workforce and it happened for me,\u201d Betty added.<br \/>\nBetty  is already nursing the ambition to contest the Affigya Kwabre  constituency parliamentary seat in the Ashanti region on NDC ticket.<br \/>\nThe  Education Minister, who is a native of Ejuratia, according to sources,  has made wide contacts with influential leaders of the constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Betty Mould-Iddrisu has announced her desire to become President of Ghana. She however did not make it clear whether or not she would be contesting the flag-bearer primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Betty, in an interaction with Joy FM\u2019s Bola Ray on Thursday evening, said she \u201cabsolutely\u201d desires to become President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Betty For President - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/12\/betty-for-president\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Betty For President - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Education Minister Betty Mould-Iddrisu has announced her desire to become President of Ghana. 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