Indeed, the reverse is true with the former first lady and aspiring NDC flag bearer. Her very intriguing presidential campaign has begun as answers without questions. Ghanaians of all stations including this writer have been left scrambling to find unique questions that suit her campaign\u2019s Machiavellian moves.<\/p>\n
Tongues are wagging, conspiracy theories abound and the ubiquitous Mr. Kofi Adams \u2013 the man who wears two hats, NDC deputy secretary and Rawlings\u2019 family spokesman \u2013 has launched a media a-go-go, doing a delicate two step tango, spinning yarns of half baked truths from both sides of his single mouth.<\/p>\n
ANSWER WITHOUT A QUESTION: October 24th 2010, News headline: Nana Konadu\u2019s Posters are Out! Viola! Out of the expansive blue, Nana Konadu Agyemang\u2013Rawlings\u2019 2012 campaign posters just materialized! The wonder sheets were found plastered all over Accra and other strategic Ghanaian cities and towns. These posters immediately raised eyebrows and solicited deserving questions: Where do they come from? Who is behind them? Do the Rawlingses know anything about them?<\/p>\n
For months, the Rawlingses ignored the issue behaving as if it was no concern of theirs. Nana Konadu was mute; John Jerry went about his favorite pastime, BASHING PRESIDENT MILLS, \u2018the man he single handedly planted in the Osu Castle.\u2019 Even Kofi Adams, the designated mouth, was atypically sketchy on the issue.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, more poster sightings continued. The initial claim of ownership came from the \u201cgroup calling itself Foot Soldiers of the ruling National Democratic Congress.\u201d Then FONKAR (friends of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings) busted on the scene with more claims of their own. Both groups maintain they acted on their own initiative without the good lady\u2019s prior knowledge, hoping to draft her as their 2012 NDC presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
Hmmm! What a bunch of good friends! Friends whose respect for her is so low that they thrust her publicly into a possible acrimonious party breaking campaign without privately seeking her opinion first?<\/p>\n
Or friends who think she is a spineless puppet whose strings can be manipulated to make her sing and dance without resistance into a presidential campaign? Or friends who know her so well that they knew of her deep nourished presidential ambitions? Is this whole business of \u201cbeing drafted by friends\u201d even genuine?<\/p>\n
Is this not an elaborate hoax, designed to throw wool into Ghanaian eyes, a typical bait and switch orchestration of the Rawlings\u2019 song manuscript \u2013 a John Jerry comeback by proxy in a skirt?<\/p>\n
ANSWER TO SOME QUESTION: April 13th 2011, News headline: \u201cNana Konadu resigns to contest NDC’s Presidential slot.\u201d Finally, after months of silence, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings herself provided a purposeful answer. She was resigning from the Vice Chairperson position of the National Democratic Congress to oblige other people; quote \u201cto enable me respond to numerous calls on me to contest the Flagbearership of the NDC when nominations are opened.\u201d Who is bothering her, check her phones?<\/p>\n
Fellow Ghanaians, there we have it, from the \u2018horse\u2019s own mouth.\u2019 Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings Dr. is the ultimate sacrificial lamb. At FONKAR\u2019s bidding, she is offering her PURE, CORRUPTION FREE BODY on Ghana\u2019s political altar to save the soul of the NDC from the \u201cWHO BORN DOG GREEDY BASTARDS.\u201d FONKAR and the so called foot soldiers knew something Nana Konadu herself did not know: They knew she wants to be President of Ghana!<\/p>\n
Nana Konadu\u2019s resignation letter and subsequent verbal confirmation in an Adom FM\u2019s Dwaso Nsem interview should have cleared all questions about her impending candidacy but it didn\u2019t. Spokesman Kofi Adam\u2019s follow up performance on Joy FM\u2019s News File did not do the trick either. Their efforts have instead flung the flood gates wide open and gazillion of questions are gushing out.<\/p>\n
QUESTIONS FOR THE NDC PARTY<\/p>\n
Is Nana Konadu Agyemang a viable candidate in a general election against the NPP? Will her challenge of the sitting President split the party? Will in fighting affect the NDC\u2019s chances in the 2012 general elections? Has the NDC come clean about the role of former President Rawlings in the party\u2019s creation? Was the 1992\/93 narrative that PNDC supporters and sympathizers founded the NDC and drafted Ft. Lt. Rawlings as their Presidential candidate because of his charisma true? How come the NDC is claiming in 2010 that Ex-President Rawlings\u2019 vision led to the formation of the party? When did Ft. Lt. Rawlings lay out his vision for creating the party? Where are the records of his pre-NDC speeches or plans for the party\u2019s creation? Is he the founder because he bankrolled the party with Ghana\u2019s money? Which of your two accounts is not factual: The charisma story of 1992\/93 or the visionary story of 2010?<\/p>\n
QUESTIONS FOR THE RAWLINGSES<\/p>\n
Nana Konadu, what is the real motive behind your challenge of president Mills? Are you challenging him because the NDC party has sidelined you, the Rawlingses? Didn\u2019t you get the leverage you so desperately crave in party affairs and policy direction when you were elected \u2018vice chairperson\u2019 and your husband the Ex-President was designated \u2018founder \u2019of the party? What prove do you (the Rawlingses) have to substantiate your accusation that the Mills camp of your party was trying to buy NDC delegates vote at a time when President Mill was the only declared Presidential candidate? How does a single candidate logically buy votes against non-existing opponents? And whose money is being used to buy those votes \u2013 Mills\u2019 personal money, the party\u2019s or Ghana\u2019s?<\/p>\n
Ex-President Rawlings, didn\u2019t you reportedly impose candidate Mills on the NDC and stand by him through three attempts at the Presidency? What change(s) have you noticed in \u201cthe Professor\u201d since his assumption of the presidency and do you regret getting him there? Are you opposing your former vice president because he will not heed unconditionally to your advice and numerous requests for vendettas against the opposition? Don\u2019t you know that political vendettas and witch hunting are the root causes of all genocides in history?<\/p>\n
You rampage about \u2018lack of jobs for the boys.\u2019 What is the profession of the boys? Are they trained artisans, professional teachers, nurses etc. or just unruly party followers that need to be rewarded for dirty work done on behalf of party big wits? How about advocating for training for the boys so they can become productive members of society? By the way, were you expecting President Mills to be \u201cyour poodle\u201d as the NPP was alleging in electioneering?<\/p>\n
You preach accountability and probity accusing your opponents of corruption when they live above their publicly known means. You however are quick to explain any imbalance on your income-expenditure sheet as gifts from mysterious friends.<\/p>\n
Mysterious friends, paid for your children\u2019s expensive education and life styles abroad because Ghanaians knew you could not afford it. Mysterious friends are currently financing Nana Konadu Agyemang\u2019s campaign because you honestly cannot explain it otherwise to Ghanaians. Has it ever occurred to you that those you accuse of corruption may also have mysterious friends bankrolling their lifestyle? Since you are so clean, why do you need constitutional immunity?<\/p>\n
Back in 1979, some of us were very proud to have a head of State who had a YOKOGARI credit account. He was one of us, the honest, struggling masses living within our means, a sharp contrast to the then opulent (SMC) Supreme Military Council. There were no mysterious friends bankrolling your above means expenditure. You have changed! Those who live in glass houses should stop throwing stones.<\/p>\n
If government officials are to be probed for corruption then the probe should start from the President or head of state. It should not just be the ministers, DCE\u2019s, party functionaries and small fishes. Will you give your PNDC cooked immunity up so that your family and President Kuffour\u2019s family can be probed? Isn\u2019t it hypocritical that you want all Ghanaian politicians probed except yourself, family and cohorts?<\/p>\n
Rawlings\u2019 family spokesman Mr. Kofi Adams, you declared on Joy\u2019s News file that Nana Konadu was present at the beginning of the NDC \u201cduring the meetings in the bushes.\u201d In 1992\/93 when the party was formed, the PNDC was in power and Ft. Lt. Rawlings was the head of state; why was his wife meeting folks in the bushes? Where were these bush meetings?<\/p>\n
Who were the participants? Who and what were they hiding from? What illicit activities were they engaging in? They could not have been hiding the formation of the NDC because the PNDC had lifted the ban on party politics unless of course they were funneling Ghana\u2019s money. Mr. Adams, this is 2011 not 1981, stop insulting our intelligence.<\/p>\n
Dear President Mills, isn\u2019t it true that Ex-President Rawlings made your presidency possible? Why then have you bitten the hand that fed you? You are famously known for one remark \u201cDzi wo fie asem,\u201d \u2018handle the affairs of your house.\u2019<\/p>\n
Although that remark was referencing Ghana, your bigger house, don\u2019t you think that you should equally handle the affairs of your two smaller houses, the NDC party and your cabinet ministers? Are you aware that every single person (including the Wayo man himself) that vouches for your personal integrity labels your cabinet and inner circle as corrupt in the same sentence?<\/p>\n
Do you remember your 2009 answer to the journalist who asked why some of your ministers had not declared their assets as demanded by the constitution? You sir, answered; \u201cI have declared mine, go and ask those who have not done so why:\u201d What kind of leadership is that? Do you ever wonder why nobody heeded your 7 day Presidential fiat?<\/p>\n
How come that your party the NDC has been tethering on a cliff face ever since you became its leader? Why couldn\u2019t you all make the \u2018Kum bay ya, my Lord\u2019 moment at the end of the Tamale conference last? How do you think posterity will judge your stewardship, even if you win re-election, should there be a schism of your party on your watch? Good luck, sir!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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