Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Tuesday, March
08, 2016
A
group calling itself Klottey Korle Grassroots Supporters Network of the ruling
National Democratic Congress (NDC) is putting a lot of pressure on Dr. Zenator
A. Rawlings, daughter of Ex-President J.J. Rawlings, to step aside as the party’s
parliamentary candidate in the constituency for the November general election.
According
to the members, Dr Rawlings has been found not to be duly registered by the
Electoral Commission (EC) and therefore did not qualify to contest on the
ticket of the party during the primary last year.
A
statement issued in Accra and signed by one Nana Kwesi Aburam-Korankye, the convener
of the group, also said that they were reliably informed that plans were being
hatched to indefinitely suspend the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Nii
Armah Ashietey, and one Nii John Coleman from the party to pave way for Zenator
Rawlings to proceed with her parliamentary ambition undisturbed.
“They
are planning to suspend Hon. Nii Armah Ashietey and Nii John Coleman so that
after the EC opens the register for the limited registration in April, our
sister will register and the situation will be manipulated for her to go
unopposed.
“We
assure those planning this that…..this is the great NDC built on accountability,
probity and transparency,” the group cautioned.
“Our
founder is the great Jerry John Rawlings. He definitely and certainly will not
orchestrate or allow persons to orchestrate the victimization of innocent party
warriors who have toiled for this party, simply to allow his ineligible daughter
to run for Klottey Korle,” they added.
“We
are disappointed in the national, regional and constituency executives of our party
who presided over their mandated task of vetting persons who were interested in
representing our party in this year's general election and allowed Zanetor
Agyeman Rawlings whom they ought to have known right from the start did not
qualify per the rules of the party, the constitution of the party, and the
Constitution of Ghana, to contest the November NDC parliamentary primary.”
They
insisted that “it is this lapse that has dragged the name of our party into
disrepute and today, our party is being discussed in the media in a negative
light.”
Members
of the Klottey Korle Grassroots Supporters Network claimed they sighted the
letter from the Electoral Commission which revealed that Zanetor Agyeman
Rawlings is not a registered voter on the Electoral Commission's National Voter
Register.
“This
news does not surprise some of us since we have, from the very beginning, tried
to draw the attention of our party's structures to the ineligibility of Zanetor
Rawlings to run on our ticket for parliament.
“We
had our own reservations, and even petitioned the founder of our party who
happens to be the father of Zanetor Rawlings to call our sister, his daughter,
to order and convince her to step down from her overzealous ambition of running
for parliament when she did not qualify per the rules of the party and the
country.
“There
were other attempts by other members of our party in the constituency to
correct the wrong Zanetor's candidature posed to the fortunes of the party in
the constituency, yet all of these good-faith attempts to save the image of our
party and that of our sister from ridicule unfortunately fell on deaf ears,”
the group recalled.
They
claimed that Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings deceived the people of Klottey Korle, the
NDC and the entire country when she knew that she was unqualified to run for parliament
yet “went ahead and picked nomination forms, went through the vetting process,
initiated a campaign and actually contested for the NDC parliamentary primary last
November,” adding “our dear party and our sister Zanetor will clearly be
further embarrassed if she is not called to order.”
The
group is demanding “unqualified apology from Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings to the party,
the other contestants and the electorate in Klottey Korle, for taking all of us
for granted and wasting our time.”
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