Leading member of the National Democratic Congress and former Aide to the Rawlingses, Kofi Adams says he has no interest in knowing happenings with the National Democratic Party, founded and led by his former boss, Nana Akonadu Agyemang Rawlings.
Kofi Adams who was then the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC and Aide to the Rawlingses was instrumental in the campaign of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings when she challenged former President John Evans Atta Mills for the flagbearership slot of the NDC in the 2011 presidential primaries of the party.
After Mrs. Rawlings was defeated in the NDC 2011 primaries in Sunyani, Kofi Adams questioned the integrity of the delegates and expressed his displeasure at the conduct of the electoral processes that led to Mrs. Rawlings’ defeat.
He was later suspended as the Deputy General Secretary of the party when he was purportedly heard in a leaked tape plotting with the NPP’s Gabby Asare Otchere Darko to undermine the party’s efforts of winning the 2012 elections.
But responding to questions on the happenings in the party of his former boss, which she formed following her defeat in the presidential primaries, Kofi Adams said he has less knowledge of what is happening in Mrs. Rawlings’ NDP since happenings in the party or other opposition parties are of no interest to him.
He stated that he has only read in the news about the acclamation of Mrs. Rawlings as the falgbearer of the NDP for the 2020 elections.
“It will be difficult for me to know the happenings of other political parties especially parties that are not in government. I will not have much interest in knowing what is happening beyond reading one or two things that they (NDP) do. I read recently that they had an acclamation of their national executives and flagbearer of the party. So that is all I know,” he told host of Eyewitness News on Citi fm, Umaru Sanda.
Asked whether former President J.J Rawlings is conflicted between his wife’s party and the party he founded, reason he has not been active in the NDC’s campaign activities, Kofi Adams who is the NDC parliamentary candidate in the Buem Constituency for the 2020 elections said “I don’t think that he is conflicted. I believe strongly that he remains the founding fathers of the NDC and that is what is on record.”
He added that “others can form parties and say they believe in his ideologies. You cannot stop them from saying that they believe in (his ideologies). So we are happy that parties have been formed that believe in the ideologies of our founding father clearly meaning there could be a possible future integration.”
He explained that a decision had been taken by the NDC to minimize the participation of the elders of the party in the campaign activities reason Mr. Rawlings has been inactive in the party’s campaign.
