[ 2017-05-02 ]

Former President Rawlings and Wife with Kofi Adams

J.J Rawlings, Martin Amidu & Nana Konadu plot NDC take over
While struggling to parry accusations of aiding
Nana Akufo-Addo to unseat President John Mahama
and the National Democratic Congress in the 2016
elections, former President Jerry John Rawlings;
his wife, Nana Konadu and former Attorney General,
Martin A. B. K. Amidu, are busily lacing their
boots to take over control of the biggest
opposition party.

The NDC founder and his co-schemers, The aL-hAJJ
is reliably informed, have fashioned an elaborate
strategy to snatch the leadership and control of
the party with the aim of blocking former
President Mahama from leading the party again.

Sources at the Ridge and Adjiriganor residences of
the former military strongman-turned-politician
narrated to this paper how Mr Rawlings, his wife
and Mr Amidu and other like-minds have been
meeting to roll out their plans.

According to a source, the former first president,
who is also NDC Founder, and his ilk have firmed
up their plots and are only awaiting the Prof
Kwesi Botchwey committee to submit its findings
and recommendations to the National Executive
Committee before they strike.

Top on their agenda, the source revealed, is to
launch image smearing campaign and scathing
attacks on immediate-past president, Mr John
Mahama as soon as the committee submits its report
in order to “convince members of the party not
give him another opportunity to lead the
party.”

“I can tell you that the old man (Mr Rawlings),
madam (Mrs Rawlings), Martin and others have been
meeting and they have agreed that soon after Kwesi
and his people submit their report, old man will
start touring the regions to talk to our
supporters,” the source who was at one of the
meetings told The aL-hAJJ.

It would be recall that former President Rawlings
told supporters of the NDC at party’s 2016
campaign launch at Cape Coast in the Central
Region that he will come round after the election
to share with them (supporters), the ills of the
party.

“The task ahead of you won’t be an easy task.
I will reserve what I have to say till after the
elections when I will come round the country to
share with you how I think we could restore the
kind of strength that can take us well into the
future. There are certain weaknesses that we need
to deal with,” Mr Rawlings noted.

Mr Rawlings and his sect, another source noted,
“saw the party’s defeat at the polls as golden
opportunity to take over control of the NDC. So
the first strategy is to plot the defeat of all
current executives who are not in their good books
and plant their favorites there.”

“When they get their preferred candidates to
occupy the leadership positions by which time
their assigns would have succeeded in denting the
image of Mahama, it would be easy to determine who
leads the party into the 2020 elections,” the
source added.

The aL-hAJJ is reliably informed that the
Rawlingses have penciled three heavyweights of the
NDC among which two of them will eventually be
selected as preferred flag bearer and running mate
ahead of the party’s congress to elect candidate
for the 2020 elections.

“They are considering two sects of tickets…one
is Martin Amidu and Goosie Tanoh as flag bearer
and running and the other is Kwesi Ahwoi and
Martin Amidu. The Kwesi Ahwoi and Martin Amidu
ticket has not been concluded on because that will
be dependent on whether the Ahwois will agree to
team up with the Rawlings camp to fight Mahama,”
the source revealed.

According to the source, in the event the Ahwoi
camp turns down request to team up with the
Rawlings camp, the latter will “present Martin
Amidu as flag bearer at congress and when he wins,
Goosie Tanoh will be nominated as running
mate.”

Mr Rawlings and Martin Amidu have been accused by
leading members of the NDC of aiding Nana
Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party to dethrone
President Mahama and the now biggest opposition
party, the NDC.

Mrs Rawlings has long distant herself from the
NDC, consistently labeling members of the party as
filthy corrupt and undeserving of governing the
country. This is against backdrop of the fact her
daughter, Dr Zanetor Rawlings contested on the
ticket of the NDC in the Klottey Korle
constituency.

Prior to the election, there were rumors that Mr
Rawlings and Mr Amidu were bashing the Mahama
government in way to get it out of power to make
it easy for them to take over the party.

Source - alhajjnewspaper.com

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