Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has expressed optimism in the leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to transform the country.
She told Joy FM Thursday that the President has started on a positive note with his decisions and appointments since his swearing in on January 7.
"I am happy there is a change...I am very happy...because you can't have a situation where we claim to be doing well, calling ourselves lower middle income group, and [live] in a miserable situation," she said.
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) said the country's economy was destroyed by the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government through bad policies.
"I went round the country and I saw poverty staring at me...the likes of poverty that I hadn't seen since 1982(3) and it gripped my heart and touched every part of my body that this has to change."
The former First Lady who has been on a war path with the party her husband, former President Jerry John Rawlings founded in 1992 said the country could have been completely crippled had there not been a regime change.
Mrs Rawlings founded the National Democratic Party (NDC) after she defected from the NDC following some misunderstanding over what she said was principles.
"I am tired of the noise [because] at the final analysis I am somebody who believe in honesty and hardwork. As things started changing I advised myself," she said. She disclosed her husband was himself displeased with the way some party members treated him because he insisted on probity and accountability.
Mrs Rawlings said the insanity grew to the point that people who were not in the NDC had the temerity to insult the former President. "We reached that level where the respect for the founder was not there," she lamented.
Being the only woman on the country's presidential ballot in 2016, she had one objective, either she wins the election or then Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. She believed the only two people who could lead the country to the coveted Promised Land were herself and Mr Akufo-Addo.
At the end of the poll, Mr Akufo-Addo won the election by 53.3 percent based on figures released by the Electoral Commission (EC).
Mrs Rawlings said the best thing that has happened to the country after the 2016 polls is the change of government because things were getting gloomier by the day.
"You leave Accra and the situation is miserable...no capital city in Africa have I seen this kind of filth like it is in Accra," she said. "We steal everything and we can't even clean our city."
She entreated persons who are claiming the new government has underperformed since taking over the reign of government to exercise patience since it has been given a four-year term.
"A party has taken eight years to destroy us and you expect somebody to use 100 days to fix it?" she quizzed, adding the President Akufo-Addo government should be allowed to change the country for the better.
Source: Joy News
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The woman have spoken the truth and as they always say, the truth hurt the liar to death. There was poverty everywhere under ndc's leadership. Those who didnt see it were those blinded with corruption and ***barred word***. God bless u Madam, for speaking the truth.
Don't be ***barred word*** by this looter ......investigate her and the husband for the state properties she got for almost free under
I wish the NDC collapse so that this greedy woman n her husband stop disturbing our ears
This Konadu lady is a ***barred word*** woman. She just hate John Mahama for no reason. She is a hypocrite. So all the lawlessness and vandalism going on in the country on daily basis, she has not seen anything wrong it? She and her husband may have succeeded in making sure that he lost the elections last year but they can't away the respect and the reputations he carved for himself. After, she and her husband have respect in public domain in Ghana again.
what ever her wrongs doing in the past, what she is saying is true. my respect Mama. am still waiting for the Prez to arrest the Akofim people.a common illetrate farmer can raise 4 Akofim and enjoy 1 one on a special occansion and educate people comes to tell me Akofim under their care have gone AWOL to Bukina Faso.
lets contribute our views objectively and stop the insult,it wouldnt help.i dissagree with her but it will be wrong on my part to insult her,thats her view,insulting her indirectly u are insulting ur mother.
This woman never ceases to amaze, your husband's wasted 19years can never be compared to quality democracy and freedom Ghanaians enjoy between 2000 to date ok. You order the shaving of peoples hair with bottles and glasses, you bought state properties worth millions of cedis very cheap and your husband detain his critics at will or imprisoned them, you mess Ghana big time. Today I wish you thank Former President Kuffour, Mills, Mahama and now President Nana Addo for teaching you tolerance and leadership. Come again madam GreedY and jealousy Mama. You now sound like an empty can anytime you open your mouth. Advise yourself before you loose your last respect which is the title former lady you borrow from Ghanaians
By the way is Nana Addo a lawyer now? Who was the first to call the President's law background in question? Look the crooks are just doing all these so they can quietly enjoy the stolen wealth without anyone questioning them. Sycophants a hypocrites!!! Those praising them should wait till they turn their guns on the government.
she is speaking the truth you tribalistic bigot.. you are indeed a Koliko,Im NDC but most importantly a Ghanaian..They performed horribly and had to Go.FACT
Look at this eevil ashianti greedy woman. Nobody is surprised because u are an ashanti and therefore just gone back to ur tribal party.ffoolish dirty woman