{"id":380765,"date":"2011-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\n\n
\n\n\n
\n
\n

Audio Attachment
Listen to the voices of the panel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Communications Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has said he doubts if former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is capable of leading the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Joy FM\u2019s flagship programme Newsfile<\/strong> Saturday, he said, although she was popular within the NDC party, there is no way the nation would accept her as the president of Ghana.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not have faith in the electoral fortunes and success of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in a general election in Ghana,\u201d Mr Iddrisu argued, citing Ghanaians dislike for presidential dynasty for his contention.<\/p>\n

Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings early this week announced her intention to contest President Mills at the party\u2019s congress scheduled for July 8, this year.<\/p>\n

But the Communications Minister said it has been proven that the possibility of a sitting president getting a renewed mandate is very high, citing 1996 and 2004 when former presidents Rawlings and Kufuor won the respective elections when they were retained by their parties.<\/p>\n

Mr Iddrisu however said President Mills was unperturbed by the decision of Mrs Rawlings to contest him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMills is not afraid of nothing, the President is not perturbed, he is not worried at all, indeed, he welcomes the contest and he is ready for the contest\u2026 So let nobody think President Mills is afraid of a contest from Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Iddrisu who opposed former President Rawlings\u2019 opened criticism on President Mills said although he recognised the tremendous contributions of the Rawlingses to the formation and electoral fortunes of the party, he pleaded, \u201cLet the founder [Mr Rawlings], Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and everybody, at least respect the office and the authority of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

But contributing on the same programme, spokesperson for the Rawlingses, Kofi Adams, gave the strongest indication yet, that there was no turning back on Mrs Rawlings\u2019 decision to contest President Mills.<\/p>\n

He said Mrs Rawlings was motivated to challenge Prof. Mills by the groundswell of support she enjoyed from the grassroots and the numerous calls on her by some top party members to lead the party to the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe (Mrs Rawlings\u2019 supporters) are being told that you may not stand but we want to see the next step whether indeed you are preparing to do it, because we are being told that you just want to get some persons to wake up to what is expected of them. So if indeed you really want to do it, we want to see a move. That made her to take that step [to resign her position as the NDC National Vice-Chairperson],\u201d Kofi Adams pointed out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

fundamental wrong<\/strong><\/span>
\nAccording to Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danqua Institute and a member of the NPP, Mrs Rawlings\u2019 decision to contest President Mills was premised on what he claimed were failed promises of the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a president that has his presidency marked and marred with hypocrisy, incompetence, lies, increasing hardship of the Ghanaian, joblessness, and all that, on top of that there is corruption as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the decision of Mrs Rawlings to challege President Mills could mean that the president had become a liability to the NDC.<\/p>\n

Egbert Faibille, Managing Editor of the Ghanaian Observer agreed with the submission of Mr Otchere-Darko and surmised, \u201cthere is something fundamentally wrong\u201d, else there can be no other explanation as to why Mrs Rawlings wants to contest President Mills.<\/p>\n

Story by Isaac Essel\/Myjoyonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read this article: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audio Attachment Listen to the voices of the panel Communications Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has said he doubts if former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is capable of leading the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory in the 2012 elections. Speaking on Joy FM\u2019s flagship programme Newsfile Saturday, he said, although she was popular within the NDC party, there is no way the nation would accept her as the president of Ghana. \u201cI do not have faith in the electoral fortunes and success of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in a general election in Ghana,\u201d Mr Iddrisu argued, citing Ghanaians dislike for presidential dynasty for his contention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\nNana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - 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\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Audio Attachment Listen to the voices of the panel Communications Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has said he doubts if former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is capable of leading the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory in the 2012 elections. Speaking on Joy FM\u2019s flagship programme Newsfile Saturday, he said, although she was popular within the NDC party, there is no way the nation would accept her as the president of Ghana. \u201cI do not have faith in the electoral fortunes and success of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in a general election in Ghana,\u201d Mr Iddrisu argued, citing Ghanaians dislike for presidential dynasty for his contention.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-16T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\"},\"wordCount\":596,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Business\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\",\"name\":\"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-16T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Audio Attachment Listen to the voices of the panel Communications Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has said he doubts if former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is capable of leading the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to victory in the 2012 elections. Speaking on Joy FM\u2019s flagship programme Newsfile Saturday, he said, although she was popular within the NDC party, there is no way the nation would accept her as the president of Ghana. \u201cI do not have faith in the electoral fortunes and success of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in a general election in Ghana,\u201d Mr Iddrisu argued, citing Ghanaians dislike for presidential dynasty for his contention.","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu","datePublished":"2011-04-16T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/"},"wordCount":596,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Business"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/","name":"Nana Konadu is not a winnable candidate Haruna Iddrisu - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-04-16T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/16\/nana-konadu-is-not-a-winnable-candidate-haruna-iddrisu\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}