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\"NanaSpokesperson for former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has rebuffed calls for her to stand down her decision to contest President John Evans Atta Mills for the ruling party\u2019s 2012 flag-bearer slot.<\/p>\n

Kofi Adams says Nana Konadu, who is president of the 31st December Women’s Movement, will go all the way to file her nomination, contest for the position and national election and hopefully win to become the first woman president of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with Myjoyonline.com on the back of claims that a group within the National Democratic Congress was mobilizing to buy Nana Konadu out of her presidential ambition, Kofi Adams said the former first lady\u2019s motivations are far removed FROM personal gains, and it was therefore preposterous for anyone to suggest that she could be enticed with monetary or personal gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to contest for the flag-bearership of the NDC was a decision that was meticulously taken because it was done out of detailed consultation with serious persons after series of calls on her to come out to save the party from defeat in the 2012 elections and also to move on, win the election and deliver what is expected of the NDC from 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for anybody to suggest that she is into this for material gain and therefore there are some persons who are thinking of buying her out with money and juicy contracts should be joking because that is not what motivated her. It is not contracts, it is not money that is motivating her, it is to save the party from defeat and possibly total annihilation after this defeat that has energised her to be able to come out and to reduce the level of apathy so nobody should dream of that because that is not what she is for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if Nana Konadu\u2019s decision to contest was not also motivated by the perceived sidelining of the Rawlingses by the Mills administration and for which she is aggrieved, Kofi Adams said aggrieved Nana Konadu is a politician who does not take decisions based on grievances but was a meticulous response to the calls of cadres, supporters and sympathizers across the country to save the party from imminent defeat.<\/p>\n

He said news reports of mass regional endorsements of President Mills could be misleading because the same executives on the ground are the ones reaching Nana Konadu and asking her to contest to save the party from the hands of its opponents, adding that Nana Konadu comes with her own requisite attractions to the presidential ticket beyond the government\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe performance of President Mills will be a plus and minus in our campaign that is why we need a candidate also that brings something on board other than just looking at the performance of the government. If it is just the performance of governments alone, I don\u2019t think any election would be lost because any government tries to do one thing or the other. So Nana Konadu brings something more than the track record of the government\u2026 don\u2019t forget this is a person who has also built her own track record \u2013 things that have never been done by first ladies in terms of development and alleviating the (plight of) the disadvantaged in the society \u2013 she did it. She brought the woman to the level that the woman is today, she saved the children in many ways, through various intervention projects like income generating activities, marketing centres, day-care centres, water projects and what have you, even clinics. So this is somebody who has done it all and who has the track record as people can see. They look at her and know that when given such a bigger national platform, she will be able to do so much for this country. She comes with this track record.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ruling party on Monday outlined guidelines for its flagbearer contest, specifying conditions for interested party members to meet.<\/p>\n

Among other demands, the party said “Persons intending to run as Presidential Candidate must qualify to contest as a President of Ghana, under Article (62) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and, Article (44) of the Party\u2019s Constitution which states inter alia, that he or she must be;<\/p>\n

(a) A citizen of Ghana.<\/p>\n

(b) A member of a branch of the Party.<\/p>\n

(c) A known and active member of the Party for not less than 4 years<\/p>\n

(d) Not a member of any other Political Party<\/p>\n

(e) An active and card bearing member of the Party with fully paid up membership dues.<\/p>\n

(f) Accept the constitution, philosophy and policies of the Party<\/p>\n

(g) Not facing any disciplinary action for breach of the Party\u2019s Disciplinary Code and Constitution.<\/p>\n

(h) Has qualified in terms of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana to be elected as Member of Parliament and President of the Republic of Ghana.<\/p>\n

(i) Is not a member of the executive committee at any level of the party at the time of the picking of his\/her nomination form.<\/p>\n

Source: Myjoyonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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