Feb. 4 2016

(ACCRA) - Some NDC residents of the Klottey Korle Constituency have questioned the sincerity of Zanetor Rawlings, their embattled parliamentary candidate, in her quest to become MP for the constituency.

The residents, numbering over thirty (30) people, and regaled in NDC colors, today stormed the newly constructed court complex near the ministries where Zanetor Rawlings came to defend herself in a suit filed by incumbent MP for the constituency Hon. Nii Armah Ashietey and another constituent, Nii John Coleman, asking the court to declare Zanetor's election null and void.

The two plaintiffs claim that the daughter of the NDC founder J.J Rawlings did not qualify constitutionally to run as a candidate when she did because she neither processes an NDC party membership card nor a national voter's ID card. The court has so far served the Electoral commission with a subpoena to produce Zanetor's records or lack of it in their books.

However, the NDC members who appeared in court greeted Dr. Zanetor Rawlings with questions and probings.

They spoke to Peacefm's court reporter.

'If she wants to be our MP, she must tell her mother to shut up', said Nii Offei, one of the NDC members who showed up in court, adding ' her mother Nana Konadu has been calling we NDC and John Mahama thieves. Does she want her daughter Zanetor to come to NDC to steal money for her? It means Zanetor is a mole in NDC'.

Another one of the voices among the apparently agitated members in court today is Kofi of Sahara. He said ' We Ghanaians, we don't think at all. Zanetor Rawlings knows the rules and she is breaking them. Is it because her father is former president Rawlings? We are all the same blood even if different colors. What has she done for us as a doctor from abroad? She should bring the white people she is treating to vote for her'.

Others questioned her moral life as a bad example for young women in the country.

A young man in the crowd who called himself Emmanuel, told reporters ' I want to know, what example she wants to set for young girls in Ghana. She has three (3) children from two(2) men. No husband. If she becomes our MP, she will show all the girls in the town to do the same? With this kind of life, she can't be our MP'.

Zanetor Rawlings is embattled with two court cases which threatens to derail her chances of becoming MP for Klottey Korle.

Apart from the challenge on her illegibility to contest in parliamentary primaries, one of the fathers of her two daughters, Mr. Herbert Mensah has also taken her to court over lack of access to his children.

If Zanetor Rawlings is able to survive the legal battle against her candidacy in court, she will definitely still have to contend with the moral and image battle to reconcile both her apparent disorganized private life with the desired public image of the politician she is trying to create of herself.