Far More Likely, NDC Offered Konadu Payola

Feature Article of Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.The Al-Hajj newspaper report that former First Lady Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings demanded a $5 million payola in exchange for dropping her presidential bid on the ticket of the newly-certified National Democratic Party (NDP) from the Mahama-Arthur posse, pathetically reflects the sick imagination of Alhaji Iddrisu Bature, publisher of the NDC-sponsored Al-hajj newspaper (See “Nana Konadu Laughs Off $5 Million Bribe Story” Ghanaweb.com 9/24/12).Indeed, so desperate are NDC shills like Alhaji Bature to see their paymasters hang onto power by hook or crook, that they are willing to plant even the most improbably scandalous stories in the media in order to achieve their aim. From its track-record and my own personal experience with a few of its operatives, the National Democratic Congress is far more likely to have toyed with the idea of bribing Mrs. Rawlings out of her inexorable and vaulting presidential ambitions.