I Rejected NDC Runing Mate Slot In 1999-Konadu reveals

Mocks NDC unprecedented achievement.

The flagbearer of National DemocraticParty (NDP) and former first lady,

Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has rubbished suggestions that she harboured

long term ambition to become president hence her incessant attacks on the

government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Nana Konadu said she had never thought of becoming a president until now,

revealing that she declined an opportunity to partner the late President

John Evans Atta Mills in the run up to the 2000 elections.

At the ND’s delegates’ convention held over the weekend at the Baba Yara

Sports Stadium, the former President, Jerry John Rawlings stated that it

was never her wife’s ambition to contest for the presidency and that it was

because the NDC, a party he founded, had departed from the real ideology

and the basic foundationof justice, accountability and integrity upon which

the party was formed.

But some leading member of the ruling party insist the former president and

his wife’s criticism of the ruling NDC was not borne out of genuine desire

for good leadership but that they had intentions of subverting theparty for

their personal aggrandizement.

The former first lady however insists that the assertion was a figment of

the NDC’s own imagination, contending that if it was her intention to

become president under the NDC, she would have done so long ago.

According to her, it not until 2009 when things started going wayward when

this country was thrown into despondency, poor leadership and corruption in

the highest order that she decided to enter the scene and to try and

collect the wrong doings in the society.

She revealed in an interview with Omanhene Yaw Adu Boakye of Kessben 93.3FM

that in 1999, some topranking officials of the NDC, who are now playing

active role in the government under John Mahama came and pleaded with her

to partner late Prof. Mills to contest for the 2000 elections but she

declined, explained that she wanted to be by her husband and the family

deal with post election stresses.

“I wanted to be by my husband and help him and the family go through the

psychological aspect of being out of government; my intentions had never

been about becoming a president as being speculated,” she explained.

Even though the former first lady declined to mention names of the two

supposed leading members of the NDC who approached her, Mr. Rawlings knows

themselves and cannot in anyway deny it.

The NDP flagbearer also made mockery of the ruling NDC’s claims of chalking

unprecedented success under its four year reign, stressing that the

government can continue to tickle itself and laugh but Ghanaian voters

would be the ultimate decider.

“Salt does not praise itself, if they say they their performance is

unprecedented, let them show us, Ghanaians will judge them,” she noted.

The former first lady also bewailed what she termed as total insolence

within the NDC, arguing that the rulingparty lacks discipline and respect

for the elderly .

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