Mills’ Ghost Strikes Konadu

After crying maa-maa on JJ to allow her contest 2012

-As her devilish ambition suffers irreparably

After unpardonable subjecting president John Evans Atta Mills to over forty-four months of incessant daily barrage of attacks, character assassination and image battery leading him to his premature death, it is now the turn of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings to suffer the consequences. Whiles he was alive and since becoming president, Professor Atta Mills became the ‘punching bag’ of the former first lady, Nana Konadu and her hubby and NDC founder, Jerry Rawlings, resulting in his untimely return to his maker on the 24th July 2012. The duo’s extreme abhorrence for the man widely acclaimed as the genteel and peace-loving Professor of Law, Mills, led them to vow to make him and the NDC a one-term regime. Unfortunately for the Rawlingses, President John Mills passed on to glory and the baton handed over to his Vice, John Dramani Mahama.

Whiles many thought with this unexpected but sad development, the Rawlingses revulsion for the NDC would cease, that was never to be as the two rather intensified their efforts.

And it therefore did not come as a surprise when Nana Konadu, aided by hubby, Jerry Rawlings was two Saturdays ago acclaimed as the flag bearer of the newly-formed National Democratic Party (NDP) for the upcoming December presidential elections.

Two days before the NDP congress in Kumasi, Nana Konadu, at a crunch meeting with Rawlings and a coterie of her remaining loyalists at their Ridge residence had cried like a baby on the shoulders of Rawlings to convince him to support the Kumasi event.

Her main purpose of wanting to contest this year’s poll on the ticket of the new party ‘at all cost’ was to scuttle the chances of the late President Mills’ heir, John Mahama, and also to send the NDC into opposition. However, as providence, fired by the spirit of the late president Mills will have it, narcissistic and vindictive Nana Konadu could not correctly fill out simple forms provided by the Electoral Commission to enroll for the December polls, thus crashing out of the actual contest.

Konadu, who has no intention of winning the December polls, was only hoping to garner enough votes to make it impossible for John Mahama and the NDC win the elections, thus, achieving her long yearning dream of making the NDC a one-term government.

When President Mills died, Nana Konadu, then on a trip to Congo with Jerry Rawlings refused to return home to mourn the leader of the party her husband founded, she rather chose to fly to London, ostensibly for an emergency medical check-up before making a detour to Ghana later the following Friday.

She was later to have confessed that she feels if she had immediately flown down to the shores of Ghana, the ghost of the late president could have hounded her for the sustained verbal assault she engineered against him when he was alive. So even back in Ghana, Nana Konadu, like hubby, Jerry Rawlings, was unable to visit the late President Mills’ Spintex road residence to commiserate with her wife, Dr. Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills.

Nana Konadu is also reported to have refused to officially jointly author a tribute with her hubby to the memory of the late professor.

She further turned down a request by her husband to be at the grave side ceremony of president John Evans Atta Mills.