Konadu 2012 Posters…

…Win more sympathy for Mills

The Cape Coast Metropolis on Tuesday nearly turned upside down when former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ posters saga won a lot of sympathy for President John Evans Atta Mills.

Residents who called in during radio discussion programmes on various radio stations in Cape Coast said they were ready to support President Mills in any difficult situation the former first couple (Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings) will lead the president into.

They indicated that the Konadu posters is a clear manifestation that the couple were interested in the presidency again hence their continuous criticism of President Mills.

“The former president has never praised Mills because he knew he wanted his wife to contest him in their next primaries,” an angry NDC caller churned out.

A group of irate residents who had converged at Kotokuraba, a suburb of Cape, where one of the posters was posted, angrily stated that the former first couple were frustrating Mills because he is a Fante and were not comfortable with a Fante president.

“This is the first time a Fante has become a president and look at the way they are frustrating him. Do they think the country belongs to them? They group questioned the Rawlingses.

The situation compelled most of the radio presenters to ask whether their sympathy was really an endorsement for President Mills for his second term bid of which many replied positively.

An NDC branch chairman at Ola, in Cape Coast, Nii Kommey Adams, in reaction to the issue said the Rawlingses were peeved with Mills because he refused to pick Mrs. Rawlings as his running mate in 2001.

According to him, Mrs. Rawlings’ hatred for President Mills started in 2000 when then candidate Mills by-passed her to select Martin Hamidu as his running mate, a position the former lady wanted.
He claimed Mrs. Rawlings’ decision to become a Vice-Chairperson of the party was to pursue her ‘evil agenda’ against President Mills.

Nii Adams further stated that Mrs. Rawlings mellowed a bit after the party’s congress in 2001, with the hope that in 2004, Mills will select John Mahama, but he selected Mohammed Mumuni.

“She even invited Mills to a very close friend’s house to plead with him to consider John Mahama which Mills declined,” he told this reporter.

He stated that Mrs. Rawlings has since then never been happy with President Mills for rejecting her and their choice of John Mahama at that time.
He said in 2008, she was hoping that Mills will lose the elections, but God was on his side and he eventually became the President of Ghana.

“Nana Konadu, just like Obed Asamoah, has a serious aversion for President Mills as both of them were looking forward to be chosen as his running mate, but were rejected. Obed Asamoah worked his way to become the Chairman of the party to sabotage Mills but did not succeed until his removal,” he emphatically stated.

A New Patriotic Party (NPP) aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) at Gomoa East, Mr. Kwadwo Asemanyi, however, indicated that the Rawlingses will be justified if the speculation going round that President Mills wants to use the NDC to revive the CPP is true.

According to him, President Mills may be harbouring the intention of making history by reviving the Nkrumahist party using NDC, a situation which will justify the Rawlingses as they will not sit down for Mills to destroy the party they have toiled to build.

Meanwhile, information gathered indicates that both the Central Region and its constituency executives of the party have pledged their support for President Mills.