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General News of Monday, 26 September 2011

Source: oheneba adjei nimako/asedaradio.com

Rawlings Will Campaign For NPP In The 2012 Election

The outspoken Member of Parliament for Asokwa Constituency in the Ahsanti Region,Kofi Jumah has said that the way and manner the former first couple is being treated and betrayed by the Mills’ led administration they prefer to work for NPP instead of his own party, saying the Rawlingses believes that they will be better off under the NPP administration than they are now under the NDC.

According to him, former President Rawlings holds no values in his own party again because the party has betrayed and rejected the Rawlingses, hence, would not campaign for President Mills in 2012 elections.

Ex-President Rawlings has been complaining about intimidation and harassment of his supporters after the failed effort to get his wife elected the presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) on the just ended congress of the party and also has expressed that Mills-Mahama government has so far shown that it is not deserve of a second term.

Surprisingly,on the morning of September 21st 2011 the Ex-President Rawlings was mong the dignitaries who accepted the invitation and attended the ceremony to cut the sod for the John Kuffour Foundation for Leadership, Governance and Development project at the University of Ghana, Legon

Hon. Kofi Jumah, speaking on Aseda Radio in Belgium news analysis program, Bamaso,Cited the invitation of former President Jerry John Rawlings to the launch of the Kufuor Foundation at the University of Ghana, as a reference, he said´´ Rawlings wanted Ghanaians to understand that it is not a secret that the relationship between the Ex-President Kuffour and Ex-President Rawlings is an indications that his party has rejected him and now has no other option than to join the New Patriotic Party´´

Accoding to him, ´´NDC founder will turn his back on the President during the 2012 general elections because he is not too happy with the current structure of the NDC in which most key and influential positions at both national and constituency levels are occupied by persons with an unflinching support for President Atta Mills, leaving the Rawlingses with virtually no control in the