Rawlings had a good vision for Ghana – Obed Asamoah

Former Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Yao Obed Asamoah has told starr news in an exclusive interview that even though he has issues with his former boss, former President Jerry Rawlings, he believes the former Military Leader had a very good vision for Ghana.

The former Attorney General, who served under Rawlings told Emmanuel Gbikpo on the sidelines of the launch of his book titled: “The political history of Ghana; the experience of a non-conformist” in Accra Wednesday night that Rawlings’s “vision was good and if the country can maintain and develop that vision, a vision of a corrupt-free society, a vision of hard work and that sort of thing, I think it will be good for all of us.”

Dr Asamaoh fell out with Mr Rawlings in the lead-up to the 2000 elections after the latter – founder of the NDC – according to current Chairman Dr Kwabena Adjei, opted for Asamoah’s Deputy at the Attorney General’s Department, Martin Amidu, as Running Mate to Prof John Evans Atta Mills.

Adjei believed Asamoah himself relished being the Vice Presidential candidate in that particular election, and thus felt slighted by Mr Rawlings, thus the fall out.

Dr Asamoah, however, told Gbikpo his problems started with Mr Rawlings when he imposed the Law Lecturer on the party as Flagbearer in 2000, even though, in Asamoah’s view, Mills lacked the qualities of a leader.

“…So that is how Jerry and I, more or less, had our differences,” he said, adding: “…There’s no real enmity” between him and Rawlings, but “our worlds don’t cross now because there’s nothing that is common between us.”