Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson has said Mrs Konadu Agyemang Rawlings will not have any impact on the fortunes of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) if she returns to the party.
Speaking to Joy news, Mr Epshon advised the NDC against any move to get the wife of the party’s late founder, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings to return to their fold.
This comes after Member of Parliament for the Klottey Korle Constituency and daughter of Ex-President Rawlings, Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings urged the party’s hierarchy to consider steps to reconcile with her estranged mother, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
According to her, this will heighten the chances of the NDC in its bid to annex power in the 2024 general election.
However, Ben Ephson believes that Konadu’s departure from the NDC has not been inimical to the party’s electoral fortunes. Therefore, efforts to smoke the peace pipe with her have no electoral significance.
‘I don’t think that the call will be received well because she left on her own volition, and if even the late President Rawlings could not prevent her from leaving, I think that if the party decides to rather go and beg her to come, it will create anger and annoyance within the party’, Ben Ephson explained.
“Mrs. Rawlings got less than 6,600 votes in 2020. She placed 9th, beating only Akua Donkor and Henry Lartey. So politically, her relevance is virtually zero, and rather it could annoy people not to vote for NDC, that it’s a party that someone has ridiculed you, left, the person did not do well and you have gone abegging her to come. It will rather be negative. If she decides to walk in, politics is about numbers. But if NDC takes the initiative, they could lose out, some people might decide not to even vote for them,” Ben Ephson posited.