JJ will face the wrath of God if .. -Alhaji

Alhaji Iddrisu Bature of Alhaji and Alhaji fame has renewed his antagonism with ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, making a pronouncement that the founder of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will face the wrath of God if he does not stop his tongue-lashing of President Atta Mills.

In a mean-spirited mood, the NDC activist pointed out that former President Rawlings risks going mad if he does not put a stop to his vicious attacks on President Mills.

Describing ex-President Rawlings’ persistent bashing of President Mills as ill-motivated, the vociferous NDC activist prophesied that the former military dictator will not go scot-free if he continues his unfounded denigration of the former Vice President.

Speaking in an interview with Kessben FM yesterday, Bature stated that it will be in the best interest of ex-President Rawlings to heed his useful advice to avert the rage of God from befalling him.

He indicated that he was least surprised about ex-President Rawlings’ unrelenting vilification of President Mills, stressing that the NDC founder was full of pettiness and jealousy.

Observing that the three-time coup maker had never been sincere with his tongue-lashing of President Mills, Bature said ex-President Rawlings had always wanted the downfall of the President.

He noted that former President Rawlings, out of sheer hatred, never gave President Mills a dog’s chance of becoming the number one gentleman of the land, disclosing that six months to the elections the ex-military leader even wanted Mills to step down.

“Let me tell you that ex-President Rawlings did not only humiliate the then candidate Mills, but actually pursued a cruel agenda to get him to step down when it was six months to the election”, Alhaji Bature emphasized.

He indicated that any Ghanaian who has had the conviction over the years that ex-President Rawlings ever had an iota of affection for President Mills has harbored an erroneous assertion all this while.

According to him, former President Rawlings amplified his abhorrence for President Mills when he and his wife publicly denigrated the former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) chairman’s choice of Vice President John Mahama as his running mate.

Alhaji Bature noted that though he admires former President Rawlings, his uncalled-for behaviour will compel him to make certain disclosures that will make him miserable in the eyes of the public.

He said there was no denying the fact that former President Rawlings was never corrupt in office and also presided over an administration which upheld the principles of integrity.

Alhaji Bature indicated that though he will not argue that intolerance to corruption and the upholding of integrity are ex-President Rawlings’ greatest strengths, the NDC founder should not think the mentioned attributes alone make him an angel.

“It will be wrong for him to think like that because some of us know certain things about him that he probably might not know, and which when made public will not only make him miserable but will make him worse than people who are corrupt and do not regard the tenets of integrity”, he strongly expatiated.

Alhaji Bature underscored that it is about time former President Rawlings realized the gospel fact that he is no more influential in the NDC as he thought he was.

According to him, if he was as influential as he thought, Ludwig Hlordze would not have won the party’s youth organizer position at Sunyani recently in spite of his vicious campaign against him.

“Because he is no more a dominant force in the NDC as he used to be, his vilified campaign against Haruna Iddrissu, Minister of Communications and President Mills himself did not fly”, he stressed.

Commenting on ex-President Rawlings accusation that Ludwig Hlordze has been riding in town with the guide of dispatch riders, Alhaji Bature said the NDC founder lied and that the youth organizer has never done such a thing.

Since President Mills assumed the reins of government, his former boss, whom he had said he would consult 24 hours a day, has been on his neck, criticizing everything he does.

After describing President Mills as a slow person who is not running the country at a satisfactory pace, former President Rawlings then descended on his ministers, labeling them as mediocre people.

Showing utter disgust with the calibre of persons around President Mills, the former military leader, at one of his usual denigrations the administration, described such personalities as a bunch of bastards.

His latest deprecation of President Mills’ government was when he screamed aloud, “nonsense, who born dog”, referring to the display of sheer arrogance by certain personalities around President Mills.

Ex-President Rawlings flared-up when he had an interaction with party foot soldiers at his Ridge residence after an earlier National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting he called as a founder of the party.

At the forum, he singled out Ludwig, a presidential staffer and national youth organizer of the party, who he accused of displaying sheer arrogance by his constant use of a motorcade.

From Morgan Owusu, Kumasi