onadu Rawlings Must Run As An Independent Candidate

Alex

Amoako-Attah

May 6, 2011

Nana Konadu Rawlings Must Run As An Independent Candidate In 2012.

With all her

former close allies and hangers on crawling on their bellies to Mills’ camp,

the former First Lady and an icon of the NDC should stand firm on her

convictions and run as independent candidate in the 2012 general elections in

the event she loses the primaries to Mills in the July congress at Sunyani.

This Yaa

Asantewaa of Ghana politics must soldier on in spite of the odds and prove to

her now detractors and former colleagues that politics is not about the stomach

but about principles and convictions. Only yesterday, close confidants like

Sherry Ayite, E. T. Mensah, Fifi Kwetey, Betty Mould Iddrissu and many more

were all lying postrate begging for positions in her 31st December

Women’s Movement and her husband’s government and now that she is not in a

position to dish out such hand out, they have deserted her in droves to Mills

who has heavily buttered their bread. Such

betrayal must not deter her of pursuing her dreams and aspirations, principles

and convictions if she really believes that Mills has provided a weak

leadership and that corruption have become chronic in his government and that

there is much despair and hopelessness in Ghana more than ever before. Being a

pioneer and a trail blazer in what is

exclusively a man’s world, she must develop a thick skin to absorb the mudsling

that is coming her way from her own Party.

To these

stomach politicians, Nana Konadu will be a traitor if she decides to run as an

independent candidate in the general elections in 2012. But in reality, she will be

helping to deepen

democracy in Ghana. This is where FONKA,

Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman must come in to give her a morale booster to

push her to the highest height of her aspirations. I am therefore appealing to

guys like Dela Coffie, Amenga Secut and others at the vanguard of FONKA to

stand with Nana Konadu at this crucial moment of her political life. I call on

my brother Cornelius Akwumey a.k.a Corney and my good friend Fela O Fela to

support Nana Konadu to pursue such a noble cause. If ever there was a time the

Rawlingses have needed your support, this is the time. Your support for this

couple has been unflinching and unalloyed. All of you must remember she will be

blazing

the trail for our daughters and give hope to those girls who may wrongly

presume women cannot become president in Ghana if she decides to go

independence. This is a noble cause worth embracing by the followers of the NDC

Party who also believe in the core values and principles of the Party and have

faith in the Founder of the Party.

This is not

about vote-splitting but about principles and convictions period. The vast

majority of the foot soldiers who have been left out of the 2008 electoral

booty must rally to Konadu’s cause. They have been the mainstay of the NDC

Party but once victory was achieved, they were dumped only for those who had

deserted the Party when it was in opposition, to claim the lion’s share of the

booty. These selfless foot soldiers who gave everything to the Party are now only

foot notes of the 2008 battle for the Castle whiles those who sat on the fence

are now building mansions and amassing an unimaginable wealth. If they ever

loved Nana Konadu, this is the time to rise up and be counted. Why should the

hard core NDC foot soldiers fight to win the Castle only for the CPP elements

to claim the sweetest portion of the victory pie? Is the Party an amalgamation

of NDC and CPP or is it purely an NDC Party? This is the question the mass

followers of the NDC must answer.

If the

answer is the Party is purely NDC, the foot soldiers must then take back their

Party by giving everything they have by supporting Nana Konadu to go

independence. Do not let anybody convince you that by giving your support to

such an icon of the Party going independence, you are splitting the votes in

the general elections of 2012 and that will amount to betrayal of the Party. Do

not listen to such nonsense because those “greedy bastards” do not care about

you. They only think of their stomachs and their family. They only see you in

relation to what is called monkey dey work baboon dey chop syndrome.

Obaa Panin,

independence is the only way forward to you and your teeming supporters who

look up to you for a real change. You have never failed them so you can’t fail

them now. Your name will be etched in

Ghana’s political history if you give Mills and Nana Addo a run for their

money. The Nkrumahist Parties are too disorganized to give us a viable third

Party. This is where Nana Konadu can

make a huge political contribution by providing a viable option to the Ghanaian

electorate. Nana Konadu, it is not

selfish to go independence because it will be your contribution to the

deepening of our democracy. Your detractors will definitely not see you in such

a positive light but posterity will judge you in a brighter light. This will be

unprecedented. This will be historic. Adwoa Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, this is the

fate destiny has entrusted to you. Independence, you must go.

Alex

Amoako-Attah

New York.