When Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings defied all odds and decided to contest the late president Mills in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primary in 2010, many party followers saw her as a traitor.
The party machinery was, therefore, mobilized against her, resulting in her terrible defeat at the Sunyani Congress. The president of the now comatose 31st December Women’s Movement was not only defeated at the congress, but she and her husband, Jerry John Rawlings, were also embarrassed.
Immediately the former first couple entered the Sunyani Coronation Park and were going round greeting the delegates, the organizers of the congress started playing the anthem of the NDC, resulting the low reception accorded them.
But three years down the line, the bold decision of the ‘Iron Lady’ seems to have rekindled the spirit of some of the party supporters, one of whom has decided to also contest president Mahama.
Like his ‘mentor’, George Boateng also shocked the massive followers of the umbrella party by picking the presidential nomination form at the party head office in Accra yesterday, with determination to contest President Mahama.
The Oyarifa Constituency Youth organizer insists President Mahama has failed and must not be allowed to lead the party again. The 45 year old aspirant told reporters that president had failed to improve upon the lives of Ghanaians and must, therefore, give way.
“There are a lot of jobs ahead of the president that the president has never done,” he said, adding that the way NDC, social democrats has handled the National Health insurance Scheme was an indictment on the leadership.
Until he picked his form yesterday, George Boating was not known in NDC circles. Connoisseurs, therefore, argue that he in for cheap popularity, but the young politician disagrees, insisting that he is in the race to give Mahama a good run for his money.
The man who claims to be the confidante of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings insisted that he was his own man and that he was not being pushed by the former First lady to enter the race. The action of the new entrant would obviously rankle the leadership of the party who seems to have thrown their weight behind the president.
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