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  Wife of Ghana's ex-leader to run for president
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Last EditedIndyGeorgia  Oct 17, 2012 09:20am
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AuthorThe Botswana Gazette
News DateWednesday, October 17, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionGhana's former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang, the wife of Ghana's ex-leader Jerry Rawlings, was nominated as a presidential candidate by an upstart political party on Saturday, highlighting divisions in the ruling NDC ahead of December polls.

Nana Konadu Agyemang had sought to run on the National Democratic Congress party ticket, but was trounced in a 2011 primary battle by John Atta Mills, Ghana's then-president who died in July following an illness.

After being beaten by Mills, Agyemang helped launch the rival National Democratic Party and had been flirting for months with a presidential run, while maintaining ties to the NDC.

She formally resigned from the ruling NDC on Thursday and was unanimously endorsed for president by the rival party at its convention outside Accra on Saturday.
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