Konadu Rawlings Commend EC boss After Filing Her Presidential Nomination Forms

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Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has said Ghana is lucky to have Mrs Jean Mensa as the Chair of the Electoral Commission and that she and her party, the National Democratic Party (NDP), are happy with the work of the election management body, so far, toward the 7 December 2020 polls.

“Actually, I’m not interested in what other parties are saying. What we are saying is that we’ve been lucky to have an Electoral Commissioner who sees a bigger picture, a broader picture for the whole country and we have systematically worked toward the programme that they have given us. So, for me, I’m OK with what’s going on”, she told Class FM at the EC’s head office in Accra when she went there on Thursday, 8 October 2020, to file her presidential nomination forms.

The flagbearer of the NDP described her ability to file the form as “elating”.

“We’re very happy that finally, we got everything together, we’ve presented it to the Electoral Commission”, she told journalists.

Asked if she was sure to perform better than 2016, Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings asked the journalist: “Were you here last four years? If you were, then you know the work the EC did to stop some of the parties from even entering this place, so, if you were here, then I don’t think you should have asked that question because we had two weeks,14 days, to do everything and start campaigning, so, that should tell you why it happened that way”.

In the 2016 polls, Mrs Agyeman-Rawlings got 16,935 out of the total 10,881,083 votes.

She is, however, confident of victory in this year’s election.


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