The late Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings and former President Jerry John Rawlings
A 2018 video showing the late former President Jerry John Rawlings recounting how he won the heart of his late wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, has popped up.
In the throwback footage, Rawlings fondly recalled his long and persistent courtship of Nana Konadu, a story he shared during an appearance on the television show Dining with Cooks & Braggarts.
The late president narrated that it took him five years of persistence to finally win Nana Konadu’s affection after they both completed school.
“For five years, five! After I left school and came back. One Saturday, with a gang of friends, we went to their house and I sent for her. I didn’t think she would come but she did,” he recounted.
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He went on to describe his youthful determination to get closer to Nana Konadu.
According to him, she was initially hostile towards h but her attitude changed after that meeting.
“You know, she had mellowed towards me. It was all love,” Rawlings said with a smile.
Amid laughter, he also confessed to using a classic courtship tactic, pretending to be interested in Nana Konadu’s friends just so he could walk with their group and be near her.
Watch the video below:
“I chased Nana Konadu for five years before I got her.” – A 2018 throwback video of Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, revealing how he won Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’ heart pic.twitter.com/6ksTdDPsht
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