Nana Konadu Agyemang- Rawlings, wife of the founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, says she will never renege on her decision of breaking away from the party.
The former first lady maintained that no amount of coercion and lies by elements within the ruling party would compel her to come back to the NDC, saying that she is resolute in that decision.
Her confirmation to lead her National Democratic Party (NDP) came as a major relief for the rank and file of the young party after rumours became rife that she had accepted an invitation to be the vice presidential candidate of the NDC, come 2016.
NDP officials asked Nana Konadu during a public lecture in Sunyani last Wednesday to either confirm or deny the rumours of her accepting the offer to rejoin the NDC as a running mate to President John Mahama in the next general elections.
The forum was organised by the Community Organisation Bureau Network of Ghana (COBNOG) and Developing Women Mobilisation (DWM), nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) linked to the NDP.
The public lecture, which was under the theme, “Ghana Must Work Again With Special Emphasis On Integrity- Shared Leadership For Good Governance,” was attended by traditional rulers, NDP functionaries in the Brong-Ahafo Region and other dignitaries.
Addressing the participants, Nana Konadu, who spoke extensively on good governance and leadership, lashed at the Mahama administration for performing abysmally to improve the living conditions of the people.
According to her, nothing seemed to be working in the country now, citing the current economic turmoil the Mahama administration has plunged the entire nation into, amidst the energy crisis known in the local parlance as ‘dumsor.’
“Without being hysterical about the present state of the nation, which stares everybody gloomily in the face, we can now establish a clear case of leadership deficiency that has given rise to all the unending social ills – from the ‘Asontaba’ scam to ‘Zabtaba,’ supreme court-decided judgment debt still dragging in blatant abuse of our legal system,” she noted.
Corruption She continued: “Our mismanaged economy is better manifested in mass deprivation, unemployment, a deluge of corruption and of course, ‘dumsor,’ symbolising national obscurity from inspired innovation and creativity.”
Nana Konadu further stated: “Today the national discourse is trivialized in political equalisation aimed at public deception, crookery and making a political capital out of mass ignorance, instead of a resolve fulfillment in social democratic intervention imperatives in free SHS, NHIS, agric, etc.
“Yes, indeed, the nation must work and rise again to restore national productivity and secure livelihoods. We cannot any more accept political party manifesto scams that bring nothing to the people…”
The wife of the NDC founder, charged the participants to wage a national crusade to create awareness in the citizenry on the need to acquaint themselves with the provisions of the 1992 Constitution so as to assert their constitutional rights to demand accountability from government.
“Strict recourse to constitutional path and function of leadership shall remain the imperative to reignite the engine of drive to social goals,” she added
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