There are strong indications that the daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Agyeman-Rawlings will contest the Parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Korle Klottey constituency.<\/p>\n
Ezenator, who made her intention known in an interview on GTV on Wednesday, said she\u00a0 decided to vie for the NDC ticket because she believes there is still a chance to help improve the situation of the party.<\/p>\n
Ahead of her declaration, she had been embarking on community service in the area.<\/p>\n
Asked why she chose the NDC over her mother Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings\u2019 National Democratic Party (NDP), she stated that her parents brought them up in a way that allowed anyone in the family to have different political affiliation, \u201c and the purpose for which one embarks on a path with one group or another could simply be because one has noticed that there is a problem and would want to help fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She admitted that things were not going too well in the NDC but there was still a chance to make rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people see the NDC differently but maybe there is still a chance to help improve things. I think sometimes it is easy to give up on something when it has gotten that bad but every now and then you see a spark and you think maybe there is a chance to make amends, to repair a broken engine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She added that she would be embarking on the campaign trail with the people\u2019s interest at heart and present what she has to offer them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy only prayer is regardless of whoever they choose and whoever wins that seat, the community comes first and that is all that matters. The people\u2019s interest needs to be put ahead of the individual interest,\u201d Ezenator said.<\/p>\n
She was optimistic that he father would support her in her political ambition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would not be expecting him to mount the campaign trail with me. It won\u2019t be bad though but I think that it is important that if I\u2019m going\u00a0 ahead with this, I can actually reach out to people and they can actually see me and what I have to offer them. I also think it is all well and good to ride on the shoulders of the great but is also important to do some of the leg work yourself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Konadu Snub<\/strong><\/p>\n Ezenator said she did not expect Nana Konadu to return to the NDC; but was positive about an alliance between the NDP and any political party apart from the NDC.<\/p>\n \u201cWith regard to my mother\u2019s refusal to come back to the NDC, I think even from the outside looking in, the extent to which the abuse went was pretty far. I cannot speak for her on that but what I will say is that like every other person in Ghana, she reserves the right to have political affilations with\u00a0 whom she pleases.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not quite sure what it would take, if at all, to convince her to come back to the NDC. However I don\u2019t know what the future holds. There is always an option for an alliance between parties. It has been done before and it can always happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As it stands, the NDC founder\u2019s daughter would go unopposed, since an aspiring parliamentary candidate for the ruling party as the incumbent, Nii Armah Ashiety, was not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n There might be other candidates however lurking in the shadows as the party opens nominations today.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Daily Guide<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are strong indications that the daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, Dr. Ezenator Agyeman-Rawlings will contest the Parliamentary primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Korle Klottey constituency. Ezenator, who made her intention known in an interview on GTV on Wednesday, said she\u00a0 decided to vie for the NDC ticket because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":146787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2183,38,2176],"class_list":["post-146752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general","tag-maligu-naa","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-tamale-mce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}