The disqualified Presidential Candidate hopeful
of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has
embarked on a series of campaign tours meeting queen mothers throughout the
country. As part of the tour, Nana Konadu has already visited queen
mothers in the Central, Western and Volta regions, and will take her campaign
to other regions in the course of her tour.
Throughout the discussion
with the queen mothers, she has been empowering them on their role in the
socio-economic development of their communities.
Her discussions had
also centred on the development of the girl child, who she says deserves a
future opportunity.
Dynamic support
Briefing the Daily Graphic,
Nana Konadu noted that since the 1980s, queen mothers had shown dynamic support
for “my work with women and children”.
She said on September 9, her
campaign took her to the Volta Region where she had discussions with the queen
mothers on the NDP’s policies, particularly her vision for women in nation
building.
She said women, she believed, have a dynamic role to play in
developing their communities.
From her point of view, empowering women
would bring about multiple effects on Ghana’s
development.
Lawsuit
The NDP is the latest party to join the
number of lawsuits as it has sued the Electoral Commission (EC) days after the
Commission rejected pleas to rescind its decision to disqualify the party's flag
bearer, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings.
But Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings
is optimistic of emerging victorious in the legal battle against the EC to
enable her to contest the December 7 presidential election.
The NDP is
seeking two reliefs to get Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings reinstated and an
injunction on the EC’s programme towards the election until the final
determination of the case.
The EC has been embroiled in some legal
battles after it disqualified 12 political parties for failing to abide by
directives stated in the Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 94).
The
Commission explained it was unable to accept the nomination of the NDP flag
bearer because the number of subscribers she raised fell short of the required
432 valid voters captured in the C.I.94.
Solid case
Addressing the
Central Regional Queen mothers Association in Cape Coast last week Friday, she
said her strong optimism was as a result of the “solid case” the party had
brought against the EC.
She added that her strong conviction had made her
to continue campaigning across the country to persuade the electorate to vote
massively for her.
“We are convinced in our minds that we have a very
good case in court, so there is no ‘in case we lose the court case’,” was Nana
Agyemang-Rawlings’s response when the Daily Graphic sought to know what her next
line of action would be in case she lost the court
case.
Economy
On the economy, Nana Konadu accused the government
of doing “everything haphazardly”, and promised to introduce various
interventions aimed at lessening the burden on the youth.
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