[ 2017-01-27 ]

Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana

'I wish I could say I'm taking over NDC' - Rawlings
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said he
wished he could say he was taking over the main
opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as
being rumoured and claimed that he plans doing.

“I wish I could say yes, but I think it sounds
better in my ear to say that I want God to come
and lead us because of the integrity factor. God
can be found in the truth,” Mr Rawlings said on
Thursday 26 January when the Volta regional caucus
of the party in parliament called on him at his
office.

He bemoaned that integrity had been “held
hostage” in the NDC and, thus, urged the party
to, in candour and truthfulness, seek answers to
its loss in the December 2016 general elections.

The founder of the NDC charged the Volta regional
caucus to restore integrity within the NDC, which
he said had suffered.

“It has been ambushed and held hostage. The time
has come to free the truth,” the ex-military
leader told the caucus members when they called on
him at his office.

Mr Rawlings called for sincerity in speech,
thought and action as the party probes its loss.
“The time to free the truth is now,” he said.

“What our supporters need is candour. If you
want them to stay united, if you want them to be a
little strong, all you can offer them now is
candour. Don’t engage in political talk of the
past.”

The former president said the misuse of executive
power by some people had, with time, led to the
detachment of the party from the people, stating
the intoxicating effects of power had made many
leaders of the party and government impervious to
reality. “We adopted certain habits which were
going to lead to failure and we were not seeing
it. The mistakes were too obvious,” he stated.

The Member of Parliament for Ho West, Emmanuel
Kwasi Bedzrah, who led the delegation, thanked the
former president for the audience and indicated
that the purpose of the meeting was to open
channels of communication so they could tap into
his rich experience.

Source - classfmonline.com

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