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The National Democratic Party (NDP) founded by former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have accused flagbearer of the NDC John Dramani Mahama for appointing to power people who attacked the founder of the party Jerry John Rawlings.
During a press conference on Monday, the NDP General Secretary, Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong castigated the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, NDC for shedding crocodile tears over the death of their founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings.[ads2]
According to him, the NDC hired and sponsored people to rain insults at the former president with the sole aim of desecrating the legacy of Rawlings and relegating him to the background in order to benefit from the goodies coming into the party.
“It have come to our attention which show clearly that there are attempts by some elements to desecrate the legacy and name of President Rawlings even upon his demise. These acts are being perpetrated by persons who have shown a desire to constantly humiliate Jerry John Rawlings and his family even when he was alive”,[ads3]
“It is worth noting that these deliberate orchestrations to humiliate the Rawlings family began long ago. It began right from the period when certain individuals, many of whom were direct beneficiaries of the revolution that Jerry John Rawlings led and the party that he formed at the peril of his life, felt the need to use their temporary hold on the leadership of the NDC to relegate him to the background in order to capture the juicy fruits borne from his sacrifices; they’ve tried to harvest where they have not planted”
“For the past decade, these elements led principally by the Ahwois and the Mahama group within the NDC, orchestrated a series of coordinated attacks aimed at destroying the legacy of Jerry John Rawlings. This, they did, by sponsoring political neophytes JJ himself aptly described as ‘babies with sharp teeth’ to unleash barrages of insults and spew damning political rhetoric on the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings”
Mr. Frimpong stated that the former president before his demise was heartbroken on how the leaders of the NDC failed to defend Mr. Rawlings when people within the party started attacking him.
“Even the eventual ostracization of Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings from the NDC was inadequate to appease them. As recently as this year, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, the running mate of the NDC wrote the foreword of a book by Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi which was aimed at destroying the legacy of Jerry John Rawlings. Indeed, in the weeks leading up to his demise, President Rawlings made it clear to all those he had meetings with that he was extremely heartbroken that neither the leadership of the NDC nor the Executives had made any statements in defence of the Founder nor to correct the lies in the book”
He added that all those persons who spewed attacks on the former president have now been appointed onto higher positions by the current leader of the NDC John Dramani Mahama.[ads4]
“The political henchmen who were utilized for such diabolic assignments have been rewarded with high positions in the NDC under John Mahama and those who picked up the baton are also expecting big posts under a Mahama government”
“Those who produced forewords of books that cast the founder of the party in bad light are hoping to occupy the highest positions in government on the ticket of the party which was formed through the sweat and blood of Jerry John Rawlings. And now, upon his demise, they are seeking the limelight for more personal political gain! How dare they….”, he concluded.
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