The YFL is aware of planned and projected machinations by people in government as well as surrogates of President Mills to launch a full scale media WAR against the former first lady of Ghana and vice chairperson of the NDC Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. We have intercepted several text messages-one of which reveals the entire plot by Ato Ahwoi who have engaged the so-called ‘Coffee shop mafia’ of ‘caricature journalists’ and also formed the group- alliance for responsible opposition (AFRO) ostensibly to thwart any plans or presidential ambitions that may be nursed by Mrs. Rawlings for 2012.

According to a ‘private and confidential’ text message sent by James Agyenim Boateng, deputy information minister to other colleagues including Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Koku Anyidoho, inussah Fusseini Etc. Etc. he lamented about the presence of people linked to the Rawlings’ in the AFRO group which he described as ‘a group of hungry CPP guys’ he cannot trust well enough. The deputy minister says he believes that some of the AFRO boys have links with someone close to Mrs. Rawlings-a situation he describes as dangerous if the purpose of the group to thwart any ambitions that Mrs. Rawlings may be harboring towards the presidency in 2012 is to be achieved. James Agyenim Boateng went further in his message to state that the AFRO group will not achieve its purpose as ‘uncle Ato’ wants it-to scatter the ambitions of Konadu Agyeman Rawlings if things continue the same way.

He even goes on to claim that the ‘commandoes’ of the former president Rawlings are ‘sniffing around’ for some named people rooting for Nana Konadu and gathering good intelligence whiles they’re (Government) dealing with ‘hungry CPP guys’ who cannot be trusted because they may have close ties with Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum whom he believes could leak their plot to the NPP and cause a scandal.

The YFL also learnt from the intercepted text message sent by the deputy minister that several meetings have been held to pursue this agenda with people he described as ‘new faces’ being around during those meetings without prior notice to the rest of the team of schemers-a practice he cautioned must be stopped immediately to prevent leakages.

The YFL will like to caution all those behind this plot to be Wary of the dire consequences of their covert activities within the NDC in their attempt to impose a politics of exclusion ism on all of us. It is important for these people with blind and primitive loyalty to president Mills to be reminded that the NDC Flag is not a bona fide property of Prof. Mills and no one can be excluded from contending for the leadership of the NDC. They also need to keep in mind that the so-called ‘coffee shop mafia’ failed to bring down Prof. Mills when the NPP contracted them to do so. It would therefore be a nonstarter to depend on them to bring down Mrs. Rawlings. They shall fail again as they have always failed!

As for the AFRO group, they must be careful what agenda they pursue for their political patrons as this plot has failed even before it is executed. Those who have run out of political strategy and steam and who have resorted to these kinds of discredited intrigues must be prepared to take the blame when the NDC eventually suffers irreparable disunity among it’s rank and file since no plot or scheme of theirs will go unchallenged by we the NDC youth with conviction of principle who don’t only believe in fair play but also are a vanguard to the values and virtues that form the bedrock of the NDC. If these intrigues and politics of exclusion are a part of the ‘new NDC’, we would resist it as an alien culture that must never be tolerated and integrated into our culture as a party.

We also call on President Mills to as a matter of urgency call to book, all those people who are calling Mrs. Rawlings unprintable names because of suspicion of her involvement with recent activities of party foot soldiers in the MOVEMENT FOR KONADU 2012 calling on her to step out and contest president Mills for NDC flag bearer in 2012. These people are beating WAR drums within the NDC and if the president is worth his word and his position as party leader, he must openly denounce these unprintable statements from his henchmen whose over-zealousness could soon provoke further reprisal actions from avowed supporters of the former first lady. And that cannot douse the big hoo-hah that has been generated already in the past few weeks. But let no one-be it association of regional chairmen or a clique of compromised or caricature journalists-make an attempt to gag Mrs. Rawlings and not expect a democratic rebuttal from her equally numerous and dedicated loyalists.

Signed:

SaCut Amenga-Etego
YFL general secretary