[ 2011-04-10 ]

Rawlings - Mills

Mills refused to be Rawlings’ puppet – Kwesi Pratt
The former President is reported to have said on
several platforms that the Mills’ administration
is not performing because he (Mills) does not
listen to advice.

He asserts that the former President having
realized that President Mills was unwilling to
succumb to his whims and caprices then tagged his
administration as full of ‘greedy bastards’.
Mr Pratt said, it beats his imagination that
whenever any NDC activist dare censure Mr.
Rawlings, that person immediately comes under a
barrage of verbal attacks, and challenged claims
that the Rawlingses founded the NDC since that was
inconsistent with the laws of the country.

“I have no doubt in my mind that the NDC is in a
very deep crisis and the opposition are taking
advantage of it. To say that the party belongs to
former President Rawlings is an affront to the
laws of Ghana. No party can be ruled by any
individual and no one person can register a
political party in Ghana.

Before a political party is recognized it must
have founding members from a number of regions or
constituencies in the country and it should have
operational offices. It is therefore not right for
one to say that NDC belongs to former President
Rawlings.”

Speaking as a panelist on Radio Gold’s Alhaji
and Alhaji with Suhini Alhassan as host, Mr Pratt
demanded: “How can it be possible for anybody to
solve the multi-dimensional problems in Ghana in 6
months? It is not possible to do that in six
months even the founder knows; so where from all
these allegations?”

Touching on the decision by the NDC’s National
Executive Committee (NEC) to go for an early
Congress in July instead of December, the
outspoken seasoned journalist described it as a
wise one, adding that it will “break the myth
around all kinds of forces in the party.”

“Let the delegates of the NDC decide who they
want so that those who think the party cannot go
on without them will know their stance,” he
said.

He disclosed that he will be extremely
disappointed if former first Lady, Nana Konadu
Agyeman Rawlings shelves her presidential ambition
and fails to contest President Mills in the
party’s primaries for a flagbearer.

“I will be most disappointed if she doesn’t
contest. She should contest…Let the people of
Ghana and the delegates of NDC decide who is who.
This is the moment of reckoning and all those who
think they are ‘chales’ (significant people);
this is the time for them to display their
‘chale’ (significance). The time for
‘chale’ display has come; let them go forward.
Let the people decide and after that…Let them
say that the people made a mistake…I will
encourage her to contest,” he said.

Source - Peacefmonline

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