Former Chief of Defense Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (Rtd) has said he asked late President Rawlings whom he would vote for in the 2020 elections before his demise.
Mr. Nunoo-Mensah says his question came as a result of the late President’s wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, being chosen as flagbearer of the National Democratic Party, and his daughter, Zanetor Rawlings, contesting a Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC.
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He disclosed the late President, who is founder of the NDC was in a dilemma as to which presidential candidate to vote for in the December polls.
“I asked President Rawlings, ‘your daughter is standing for the NDC at Osu Klottey…your wife is also standing. Which of the two are you going to vote for?’ He couldn’t answer me,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nunoo-Mensah has advised Nana Konadu to rescind her decision to contest the 2020 elections as a sign of respect to her late husband.
“If I were her, I would not stand. If she was to ask me, I’d say ‘Madam, it is okay, call it off as a respect to your husband,” he said whilst speaking with JoyNews.
Flt Lt J.J. Rawlings passed away on Thursday, November 12, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital after contracting Covid-19.
According to Mr. Nunoo-Mensah, Mrs. Rawlings, flagbearer of the NDP, should forfeit her interest in contesting for the highest office of the land after her husband’s demise.
He stated “the wife [Nana Konadu] should save him [J.J. Rawlings] from that embarrassment by pulling out” of the general election.