Press release from Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings

The Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (FONKAR) found it repugnant,
irritating and deeply insulting, that the Vice President John Mahama would once
again found it necessary to attack the dignity of Jerry John Rawlings.
FONKAR take offense to the reckless, cold-hearted and egocentric effusions by
vice President John Mahama at Tein Conference in Winneba over the weekend that
former President Rawlings is not doing the NDC any good by his comments. He
wandered how the party and the government could trumpet its achievements if
leading members continue to describe ministers and government appointees as
“Greedy Bastards” and “Team B’, among others.
What is John Mahama talking about? That the government has achieved so much and
that the achievements have been overshadowed by the pronouncements of Jerry John
Rawlings? His comment is tantamount to foolhardiness and he must be told in no
uncertain terms.
FONKAR wanders why the Vice President of the republic will display such
indiscipline in a forum that was supposed to address indiscipline in the rank
and file of the NDC. To suggest that President Rawlings must not criticize the
administration because of politics of expediency is just unheard off.
President Rawlings made the famous ‘greedy bastards’ comment as a result of
certain characters around the president who have turned the “Better Ghana
Agenda” into “Better Stomach Agenda” and are surviving on their ability to
facilitate access to purgatory. We expect John Mahama to have known better.
Casting insinuations and innuendoes at Jerry John Rawlings in such a manner
smacks of indiscipline at the highest level.
The politics of attrition going on in both government and the party has taken a
new turn and John Mahama is at the height of that. The decimation and total
obliteration of the Rawlings legacy have been a long awaited dream of the likes
of John Mahama. FONKAR is not unaware of the machinations going on to ridicule
and discredit the former President.

For someone like John Mahama who has consistently shown gross indiscipline
towards Jerry John Rawlings to lament over indiscipline in the party is just
revolting. We wander what moral authority he has to preach indiscipline when he
himself is indiscipline to the core.
We want to make it crystal clear to John Mahama and his likes that President
Rawlings was able to hold the PNDC/NDC together for 19 years because he was
mentally competent, morally upright, a strict disciplinarian and was able to
stamp his personality on governance as well as reined in his undisciplined
appointees as and when necessary. Can we say the same of the Mills
administration? We wander.
We urge former President Jerry John Rawlings to display uncommon resilience in
the face of the unwarranted provocation that has been occasioned by these
unsavory politicians who are behaving like kindergarten kids fighting over
lollies.
We in the FONKAR are not just going to sit down and fold our arms and groaned,
moaned and lament like Jeremiah of the old Testaments while Jerry John Rawlings
is consistently humiliated by nonentities he projected into fame.

We want to caution the President and his lieutenants to perish the thought of
usurping the legacy of Jerry Rawlings because we are prepared to lay our lives
down to resist any attempt by John Mahama and his cohorts to usurp and destroy
the legacy of Jerry John Rawlings. We will stand up and speak our mind when the
occasion presents itself.
John Mahama must be told that these intrigues will not promote discipline and
unity in the party but will rather increase the cynicism and the antagonism. We
will perish together; if we fail in our effort to grate the scabbed-wound and
apply the right medication.
The dishonesty is just disgusting.

Signed
Dela Coffie (Communications Director)