[ 2012-04-24 ]

Former President JJ Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and Dr. Josiah Aryeh listening to the chiefs with rapt attention

Rawlings: NDC has blown the chance to win 2012 elections
The founder of the ruling National Democratic
Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, has
reiterated his worry with the leadership style of
sitting President John Evans Atta Mills and party
executives, which he believes will adversely
affect the party’s fortunes during the elections.

Meeting with a 20-member delegation of chiefs and
traditional leaders from the Volta Region on
Tuesday at his Ridge Residence, ex-President
Rawlings expressed concerns that the values and
principles on which the NDC was founded have been
ignored.

He feels the Mills-led administration had lost a
better opportunity come the December elections to
retain power.

Speaking to journalists moments after the
four-hour meeting with the chiefs, Kofi Adams, the
spokesperson for the Rawlingses, told journalists
in the presence of the former president that: “It
was his [Rawlings] wish that the NDC would win the
elections but, the leadership, as he put it, at
the government executive level and party level,
have completely thrown away that chance. He bore
no grudge against anybody but we’ve kind of
abandoned the values.”

Rawlings, who opted to speak only through Mr.
Adams, remarked: “They [NDC] have lost a lot of
morale high grounds.”

The crunch meeting with the chiefs and queen
mothers - Royals for Peace and Development - from
the Volta region was aimed at resolving the
strained relationship between the Rawlingses and
sitting President Mills.

His wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, as well
as Lower Manya Krobo MP, Michael Teye Nyaunu, Mr.
Kofi Adams, Mr. Josiah Aryeh, Madam Sylvia Awornu,
General Secretary of the 31st December Women's
Movement sat in the four-hour long meeting.

The spokesperson of the group, Togbe Hotormaho
Amedzake III told Citifmonline.com: “Our motive of
coming here is to visit Chairman Rawlings and his
wife and his household and find out how they are
faring.

“Secondly, there is this issue of bad blood
between him and some of his working colleagues,
whether now or former and so we want to find out
from him to what extent has this gotten to so that
we can inform ourselves and know the way
forward.”

Source - Citifmonline

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