NDC humiliated Rawlingses with 3% vote for Konadu in Sunyani - Victor Smith

Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Ambassador Victor Smith has said if there was one thing that hurts former President John Rawlings and his wife over the NDC, it was their collective humiliation in Sunyani with 3% vote when Nana Konadu contested then sitting President Atta Mills.

Speaking to Ghanaweb’s Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on 21 Minutes with KKB monitored by MYNEWSGH.com, he said though Rawlings' face was not in the ballot sheet, delegates saw through to him and voted against his wife in a humiliation still bottled up inside the NDC Founder’s chest.

“It was the Sunyani vote that made Rawlings humiliated because obviously, the wife was walking in his shadows”, he told KKB.

“He probably thought the people could not look at him in the face and vote against his wife or give him the kind of results that came out of Sunyani”, he explained.

He said the voters, NDC delegates, however, disregarded whatever influence Rawlings had and went ahead to thumb against him and his wife, leading to the miserable 3% she recorded.

“The people slapped him in the face with the 3% vote. So the NDC people proved a point. We voted for this man to do a job. We gave him our mandate. The whole Ghana voted him to be President so we all went to Sunyani and the people voted. So I think there is a bitterness bottled in him”, he said.

John Evans Atta Mills humiliated Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings overwhelmingly with 96.9% of votes cast to represent the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2012 general elections, the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana who supervised the NDC’s 2011 primaries announced.

President Mills got 2,771 votes representing 96.9% and Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings got 90 votes representing 3.1%.

The total number of valid votes cast was 2,866, with five rejected ballots, the EC announced and President Mills was declared the winner.

This was the genesis of what came to be known as FONKAR and GAME being Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and Get Atta Mills Elected respectively.