Konadu: I'm Forming My Own Party

It’s official and confirmed!

-“I have reached a point of no return”

Contrary to what her special aide and disgraced Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kofi Adams is telling the world, your authoritative Al-Hajj can confirm that former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is surely forming a new party.

Nana Konadu, also the wife of NDC founder Jerry John Rawlings according to our usually dependable source close to her, has confirmed the formation of her new party when some prominent people with sympathies to the PNDC/NDC called on her over the weekend to persuade her and her husband, Jerry Rawlings to reconsider their antagonistic posturing towards President John Atta Mills.

According to our source, Nana Konadu was quick to retort to the pleas of the statesmen “I have reached a point of no return, I am forming my party and nothing is gonna stop me, it is too late”.

The new party, according to Nana Konadu would be outdoored by the end of this month, June and she has the blessings of her ‘political soulmate’ Jerry Rawlings, who sources said will remain founder and chairman of Council of Elders of the NDC.

The mediators left with disappointment as all their efforts and pleas for NDC unity was rebuffed by the former first lady and her husband.

It will be recalled that The Al-Hajj, in our 31st May, 2012 edition carried a story with the headline; JJ POSTPONES NDP LAUNCH… New Party’s Outdooring now Slated for Ashiama.

In that story we stated that, “the much talked-about and long-awaited inauguration of a new political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP) by the nation’s most stubborn political love birds; former president Jerry Rawlings and wife Nana Konadu, scheduled for the 4th of June this year at Aflao has finally been postponed and shifted to Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region at a date yet to be fixed”.

We also reported that “at the time of going to press, no reason/s has been assigned for the sudden change of arrangement, but what this paper can report is that, a formal launching of the National Democratic Party (NDP) is expected to now take place at Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra region at a date yet to be agreed upon….

“The Al-Hajj has gathered that the postponement and change of venue by the Rawlingses is not unconnected with the disdain and anger amongst the people of the Volta region towards their ‘son’s deviant’ behavior”. Aide to the Rawlingses, Mr. Kofi Adams last week took a swipe at our Managing Editor, Alhaji Bature Iddrisu for allegedly spreading false information about the formation of a new political party by the former first couple. Mr. Adams described The Al-Hajj’s Managing Editor as a liar, most especially as an earlier publication in his newspaper had claimed the Rawlingses were going to launch their new party on June 4th this year, which has elapsed. The former first lady and president of the 31st December Women’s Movement, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is expected to be named Presidential Candidate of the NDP and would be partnered by former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin Alamisi Amidu.

The new party, our information revealed would be chaired by a former leading member of the NDC who is also a former NDC parliamentary candidate for the Ayawaso Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region and a known Rawlings loyalist, Dr. Kwasi Ofei-Agyemang who has openly confirmed that the new party will be formed based on the principles of probity, accountability and social justice.

Mr. Kofi Adams, the suspended deputy General Secretary of the NDC who also doubles as spokesperson of the Rawlingses is set to become the substantive NDP General Secretary whiles Alhaji Nasiru Mohammed, a former spokesman to Spio Garbra picks up the position of National Organizer.