The intimidation that the camp of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer aspirant, has been complaining about resurfaced yesterday when she appeared before a vetting committee at the party\u2019s Kokomlemle headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n
She was greeted by placards that appeared to be condemning her bid to lead the NDC in 2012 and at the same time extolling the virtues of President John Evans Atta Mills, her main contender, when she arrived for the vetting, amidst the trading of blows by supporters of both candidates.<\/p>\n
But for the professional manner in which her bodyguards managed the situation, it would have been bloody, as hired placards-holding hoodlums were brought to put the \u2018fear of God in her\u2019.<\/p>\n
Matters came to a head when about 10 young men who were allegedly \u2018sponsored\u2019 by elements within the Get Atta Mills Endorsed (GAME) group, stormed the party\u2019s headquarters with hostile placards to cause \u2018disaffection\u2019 for the former First Lady. The name of Barbara Asamoah, spokesperson for GAME, resonated as the likely brain behind the commotion, but she denied any link with the pro-Mills protestors.<\/p>\n
Nana Konadu arrived at the party\u2019s headquarters at about 10:40am and the \u2018protesters\u2019, who came in a green Hyundai mini trotro bus with registration GR 629\u201311, started displaying the placards.<\/p>\n
The supporters who were accompanying Mrs. Rawlings pounced on the \u2018protesters\u2019, with some receiving hefty slaps and others being chased away. When information reached Nana Konadu\u2019s bodyguards, they rushed to the scene outside the office to intervene.<\/p>\n
The Konadu boys then seized the placards which were reportedly sent to the 31st December office at Ridge, despite pleas by Yaw Boateng Gyan, National Organiser of the party, that the placards be brought to the party\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The Konadu boys, in the process, started accusing GAME and the party\u2019s national executives of being behind the protest and also working against the interest of Mrs. Rawlings. The angry-looking supporters then entered Women\u2019s Organiser Anita De Sousou\u2019s office and brought out more placards to prove that the NDC executives were behind what they called \u201cthe shameful act\u201d.<\/p>\n
One Konadu supporter said, \u201cThis is a clear case of leadership\u2019s failure. Party executives who are supposed to remain neutral have taken sides and are intimidating our beloved Konadu but we are capable of resisting every intimidation.\u201d Some of the placards read: \u2018Prof Mills don\u2019t mind him\u2019, \u2018Mills all the way\u2019, \u2018Atta Mills Asomdweehene\u2019, \u2018NDC is not for Konadu\u2019, \u2018John and John Part 1 and 2\u2019, and \u2018We want Mills\u2019 among many others.<\/p>\n
National Security operatives took over the security of the place and they did not have it easy controlling the Konadu supporters who had become enraged as a result of what had happened earlier.<\/p>\n
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, together with Kofi Adams, spokesperson for the Rawlingses, spent about 45 minutes at the vetting room where Alhaji Issifu Ali, Dr. Mrs. Mary Grant, Cletus Avoka, Leonard Mobila, Larry Adjetey and Chris Ackumey, all members of the Vetting Committee, quizzed her.When they came out to the reception area, a horde of media personnel swarmed on Mrs. Rawlings, eager to ask questions.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cIt was smooth. I think the committee was fair. The issues were based mainly on the way forward for the party.\u201d She said she responded to the issues raised by the committee candidly. \u201cAlthough the process was rather long, the questions were basically on the way forward for the party and I think they were really fair,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Rawlings, who was itching to go outside to salute her supporters, said, \u201cI am returning to my campaign tour. The campaign has been going well.\u201d She cut short her tour of the Ashanti region to face the vetting committee.<\/p>\n
Immediately she stepped outside, shouts of \u2018Be Bold! Be Bold!\u2019 greeted her from her supporters who had stormed the Kokomlemle headquarters of the party. According to sources close to the vetting committee, the presidential aspirant complained about intimidation targeting her campaign group and supporters and was given the assurance by the committee that her grievances will be addressed.<\/p>\n
The second candidate, President John Evans Atta Mills, would be vetted today, after which the delegates\u2019 list will be released on June 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The intimidation that the camp of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer aspirant, has been complaining about resurfaced yesterday when she appeared before a vetting committee at the party\u2019s Kokomlemle headquarters in Accra. She was greeted by placards that appeared to be condemning her bid to lead the NDC in 2012 and at the same time extolling the virtues of President John Evans Atta Mills, her main contender, when she arrived for the vetting, amidst the trading of blows by supporters of both candidates. But for the professional manner in which her bodyguards managed the situation, it would have been bloody, as hired placards-holding hoodlums were brought to put the \u2018fear of God in her\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"\n
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