The Government needs a strong NDC party

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, seeking to be elected one of six vice chairpersons of the ruling National Democratic Congress, says her desire is to see a stronger party behind the Mills-led government.

She told Myjoyonline.com that the NDC party needs to be “very solid and strong” to be able to direct the government in its activities, and she would therefore count on the party’s delegates to congress this weekend to elect dedicated, selfless and hard working individuals who will help deliver a more formidable party.

In a wide ranging interview that touched on her aspirations, the party, government, the 31st December Women’s Movement and the weekend’s NDC congress in Tamale, she espoused that “In every country it is a party that holds up a government, not a government holding up a party. It’s never done anywhere. So once the party structure is weak, we cannot then guide the government in areas that it should work hard and areas where it’s not doing too well, and we should be able to let our government know what the people are saying; it’s not what is in the newspapers, it’s not what people are saying on the TV, go into town…you don’t even have to walk far, and they will tell you a lot.