Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, has made a passionate call for a national leadership based on principles and scruples, saying anything short of that would not be in the interest of Ghanaians. Those principles and scruples, she said, "must make us work like magnets to attract people for us to win," adding that "those of us in the National Democratic Congress must make history teach us something" so that as leaders and members, we would understand that we need a minimum of principles to lead the people. Mrs Rawlings said this when she met party faithful to thank them for the support they gave her in her bid to lead the party for the 2012 elections. She recently contested President John Atta Mills for the flagbearership of the NDC for the 2012 elections but lost. Mrs Rawlings reiterated the fact that as a leader, there was the need to convince others to follow you but that it was based on the condition that the leader must believe in the true values that make visionary leadership. Sounding philosophical, Mrs Rawlings said that “winning starts from the beginning and if one should wait for perfect conditions, then no action will ever occur." History, she said, had taught for ages that history in itself taught nothing and that dreams could only be achieved if one had the virtues of courage and boldness. "We need a minimum level of vision and decorum to succeed. I still stand for truth, honesty and social justice. I will still stand for the development of our people, party and an end to poverty. It can be done. I will continue to stand and fight for those principles. I am bold and nothing has changed in me," she stressed. She urged members of the NDC to register when the Electoral Commission opens the voters' register. She called on those who bad become disillusioned for one reason or the other to put themselves together for the greater good of the party and the nation, adding that "all dreams can be achieved if you are courageous to pursue it." For his part, the spokesperson for ex-president Rawlings, Mr Kofi Adams, said that the party was dear to the heart of the former first lady. He said there was the need for the NDC to re-establish and reconnect with what informed them to sacrifice in the 2004 and 2008 elections despite the intimidatory tactics of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He said the party, in government, had failed to operate within the virtues and principles it believed in, adding that their actions and inaction were not in conformity with those of social democracy and its virtues. "We need everybody on board and that is the reason why we must do things that show that we need everyone on board. The politics of exclusion, hatred and division that we have allowed to take seed in the party must not be allowed to grow into a cancer. We must all find a way to prevent that malignant cancer from growing into a tumour," she entreated.