NDC should accept Nana Konadu back without conditions – Kofi Adams
Legislator for the Buem Constituency who also is the former spokesperson of the late Jerry John Rawlings is happy about the move to make the former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings return to the National Democratic Congress after she left the party in 2012 to form the National Democratic Party.
According to him, he wants the party to welcome her wholeheartedly without any stringent measures requiring her to apply before she joins the party she and her husband toiled to establish.
“I don’t think somebody of her stature will have to go through the processes of admitting new members to the party,” he said.
This issue has become a talking point after the Korley Klottey MP and daughter of Nana Konadu, Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings, called the NDC to re-admit her mother.
Mr. Adams reiterated that Nana Konadu is “only coming back to her home” if she changes her mind about the NDP.
He believes that “she has paid her dues” to the party in the past and must be recognized for that.
“You accept her because of what they have done and the value you have attached to what she has done,” Mr. Adams said.
He also said accepting her without any conditions won’t be the first time the party has eased rules for a returning member.
“We did it to the Goosie Tanoh’s. We did it to many of the persons who left with him,” Mr. Adams said.
He also called on members of the NDC to remain grounded and not be swayed by the commentary on Nana Konadu’s possible return to the party.
“They must not look at the negative comments emanating as a result of that call,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, NDP’s General Secretary, Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong said it did not believe Nana Konadu initiated the call for her to rejoin the NDP.
“As far as we are concerned as a party, we don’t think this conversation or prompting has the full knowledge of our flagbearer and founder.”
Though he admits that the situation may change, he added that “we believe that decision of hers [to leave the NDC) was final and forever.”
Former First-Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings exited the NDC in 2012 to found the NDP. It followed her overwhelming defeat to then-President John Evans Atta-Mills in the primaries at Sunyani in July 2011 where she garnered just 3.1% of the votes.
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