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Opinions of Saturday, 29 October 2011

Columnist: The Informer

Mr. Rawlings: Are You Destroying NDC

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Mr. Rawlings: Are You Destroying NDC
In Support Of Akufo-Addo & NPP?

When it is said that “se aboa bi be ka woa, na wofri wontoma’m”, it is truism!
To wit, “betrayal thrives from within”.

If any clairvoyant had seen through the crystal ball and predicted that there will come a day that Jerry John Rawlings will be the campaign manager for the NPP, no rational minded person would have believed it.
Jerry John Rawlings hated the NPP with a passion, and he did never hide it at all.

Any cursory look into the political history of Ghana, will see a tall list of unsavoury statements that Jerry Rawlings had on one time or the other made about Kufuor, Akufo-Addo and the NPP.
Who can forget the reference to Kufuor as “Ataa Ayi”?
How many times has Mr. Rawlings not referred to Kufuor as a “thief”?
Who does cannot recall the manner in which the NPP maltreated Rawlings in the eight (8) years that Kufuor led the looting brigade to loot and plunder Ghana?
Who does not remember that the ‘Nail Rawlings Commission (NRC)’ was set up purposely to humiliate and destroy Rawlings?
Who does not recall the vile manner in which Akufo-Addo withdrew the courtesies of Rawlings?
Who does not recall how Rawlings used to walk through the airport “zongo” carrying his luggage as he flew in and out of Ghana?
Who does not recall the manner in which the NPP harassed Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings?
Who does not recall how Francis Poku used the National Security outfit to plant all sorts of wicked stories in foreign newspapers about Rawlings?
How many times did Gina Blay’s Daily Guide, the Statesman, and other pro-NPP newspapers not publish all manner of foolish stories in their desperate attempt to destroy Rawlings and his family?
Today, Jerry John Rawlings and his wife are chief supporters of the NPP? Ei! Ei! Ei!
Today, Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings are praying for Akufo-Addo to become President of Ghana? “Yehowa!!!”
Today, Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings have become the lead campaign managers for Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP? “Ewurade Nyankopon!!!”
Today, Rawlings is praying for an NPP Government? Hmm!
Today, Rawlings believes that comical Sir John and the NPP serial callers are more loyal to him than the NDC?
Ei J.J Rawlings; is this what it has gotten to?
J. J Rawlings; can’t you not remember the past, and remember how you suffered under the NPP and how it took the Grace of God to get the NDC back to power?
Can J.J Rawlings put his hands in fire and say that he is worse off under the watch of President Mills than under Kufuor?
We ask again; can J.J Rawlings swear on the grave of his father that he is suffering more under the watch of President Mills?
Can Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings say that if the NPP was in power under the watch of Akufo-Addo, she would have been able to open her Nsawam Cannery?
Can Nana Kondau say that under the watch of Akufo-Addo and NPP, she would have been paid $5 million?
Can Nana Konadu swear that under the watch of Akufo-Addo and NPP, her mother’s house would have been given a face-lift after their Ridge house got gutted by fire?
It is very sad what Mr. Rawlings has decided to do to himself!
After working so hard to build an image for himself, it is so sad the way the Founder of the NDC is destroying his image and legacy.
What crime has President Mills and the NDC Government committed to warrant the attempt by Mr. Rawlings to destroy his own party?
Can Mr. Rawlings honestly say that the first two years after he burst onto the scene in December 1981 was better than the first two years of President Atta Mills?
In 1983/84, did Ghana not experience its worse ever famine?
Did we not have “Rawlings chain” in Ghana because the famine was making Ghanaians begin to look like hungry Somalis?
When Mr. Rawlings talks about President Atta Mills not handling the doctors’ strike properly, what was he talking about?
Is Mr. Rawlings saying that he would have given in to the unacceptable demands of the doctors?
Under his watch, did doctors not go on strike?
Was it not Rawlings who heightened expectations when he kept saying that he had a video footage of the beheading of the late Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II?
At the end of the day, did it not come to light that there was no footage of the gruesome beheading of the late Overlord of Dagbon?
So if there is no cut-out evidence of the beheading of the Ya-Na, for a court to charge people for the crime, why is Rawlings blaming Atta-Mills?
Is Rawlings saying that in this democratic dispensation, it will be possible to arbitrarily jail people?
Those of us on The Informer are weeping in our soul that Jerry John Rawlings is destroying himself and his legacy.
We feel sad for Jerry Rawlings, but if it is the case that he remains impervious to advice and has decided to destroy himself, that is his own cup of tea.
The only thing we want Jerry Rawlings to know is that; the NDC is bigger than one person and so no matter how hard he tries to destroy the NDC, the party will grow from strength to strength.
It is the wish of The Informer that Jerry Rawlings wakes up from his slumber, but if he continues to remain asleep to the reality on the ground, then we wish him goodnight and hope that he has sweet dreams.
NDC: Eye Zu Eye Za!
NDC: Ehe Dzor Bor-doorr!
NDC: Emefa mia-mia-mia!
NDC: No shaking!!!