Lawyer Amanda Clinton endorses Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang
8th July 2020
Former Presidential Aspirants of the Ghana football Association Election Lawyer Amanda Clinton has joined the list of individuals who expressed delight in the candidature of Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang as the running mate of the NDC, describing it as "historical".
Mrs Clinton, who has endorsed Prof Jane Opoku Agyemang, was the only female to have contested the 2019 GFA race, which was by Kurt Okraku.
She however, does not see any surprised element in John Mahama decision to select Prof Opoku Agyemang, saying she had foresaw it that one day a competent woman will get the nod.
"I think its historical that Ms. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman is the first female running mate on a major Ghanaian party's presidential ticket," she said.
"It may come as a suprise to some but I predicted a very competent woman would get the running mate position. Women serve and treat these roles very seriously."
Prof Opoku Agyemang grabbed the headlines on Monday after she was endorsed by the NDC to partner flag bearer John Mahama in the December contest.
She was the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast and served as the Education Minister under the John Mahama administration between 2013 and 2017.
She is not the first to be selected for running mate position as CPP and PNC in previous times had gone with female candidates.
But unlike those candidates, the choice of Jane comes in a different light with the NDC' capability of wining elections in the country, being one of two biggest party's in the country.