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Konadu is undermining Rawlings' stature – Adenta
MP
The Member
of Parliament for Adenta Kojo Adu Asare has hit hard at former
First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings accusing her of
undermining the position and stature of former President Jerry John
Rawlings.
According to
the MP, who was speaking on Newsfile Saturday on Joy FM and
Multi-TV, some party members who were wooed to join the NDC due to
the ideals of Mr Rawlings are beginning to feel disappointed. He
was commenting on Nana Konadu's claims of ownership of the party's
logo.
“Some of us are
beginning to feel very disappointed in her and I think the earlier
we went blunt on some of these issues the better…some of us are in
this party because we believed in the ideals of her
husband.
"I have grown
up to respect President Rawlings and I can consider him as one of
my mentors…but in the last two years, I am beginning to feel
disappointed and disconnected with the ideals that I thought or the
very principles I thought he stood for,” the MP
stated.
Nana Konadu, he
said, “...is undermining the position or the stature of President
Rawlings that over the years have come to build some of us or the
motivation that he gave to some of us to even get into
politics.”
Mrs Rawlings'
battle over the ownership of the NDC logo, which Adu Asare
described as unpalatable, should not have surfaced at all at a time
when the party was trying to woo electorate for the upcoming
elections in December.
He noted that
reports show the copyright for the logo of the party was done in
2010 when she, Nana Konadu was a Vice Chairperson of the
party.
“What would
have motivated her to register the logo in her name at that time?
Why is it that nobody in the party was consulted at the time she
was going to register and why is that she unilaterally did this
registration?” he quizzed.
He said if the
party has unquestionably used the logo in five elections and
“someone appears with a copyright clandestinely acquired without
anybody knowing about it…I think the laws of this country will
exonerate the NDC because,” the EC has accepted it as the property
of the NDC.
Mr Adu Asare
accused the Copyright Administrator who endorsed the documents that
gave the rights of the logo to Nana Konadu of erring and questioned
his competence. He also wondered why the administrator failed to
ask “why is that you are the only person coming to register this
without the consent of your party?”
The MP said he
expected the former First Lady, whom he referred to as “our mother”
to rather mentor her children to take after the leadership of her
husband and warned that “people should not feel that without them
life in Ghana can be truncated."
“Nothing can
stop” President Mills from becoming president of Ghana for the
second time, he maintained.
Samuel Nortey,
a member of government’s communication team, on his part said the
government, though has no official position on the matter, is
undeterred by this action and emphasized that President Mills has
no problem with the Rawlingses and has not offended them in any
way.
“His Excellency
has made sure that all curtsies which were withdrawn from the
former first family on assumption of office, he made sure all those
were restored to that family. The President does not owe them
anything,” Samuel stressed.
Samuel believed
that the former President Rawlings has no issue with President
Mills, indicating it is rather Nana Konadu who has a problem with
the President. He however, quizzed “why (did) she wait for her
husband (Rawlings) to leave the country before carrying out this
cowardly act?”
Samuel warned
that should Nana Konadu go to court over the matter, it will be an
exercise in futility.
Abdul Malik
Kweku Baako, Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper,
a regular panelist on the programme, said contrary to continuous
denials by members of the NDC, Mr Rawlings himself has indicated a
statement published on Myjoyonline.com on October 20, 2010 that he
has problems with the President.
Malik Baako
again cited a letter with the heading “Very urgent communication”
written by NDC Chairman, Dr Kwabena Adjei dated January 10, 2012
and addressed to President Mills. The letter, Baako said, pointed
to very serious conflicts within the party.
Touching on the
controversy over ownership of the party logo, Kweku Baako stated
that the issue made no sense and that “she (Mrs Rawlings) has
invited us (commentators)into a realm of absurdity.”
He concluded
that the Former First Lady was in pursuit of a diabolical self
interest which was having a collective embarrassment on the
NDC.
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