The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has officially renamed its national headquarters at Adabraka in Accra as the “Jerry Rawlings House”.
The move is designed to permanently immortalise the memory and foundational ideals of the party’s founder, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, marking exactly five years and seven months since his transition into eternity.
The historic transition of the party’s nerve centre was capped off today, Monday, June 22, 2026, with a high-profile naming ceremony.
President John Dramani Mahama led the national executive committee, party stalwarts, and the diplomatic corps to unveil a specially commissioned commemorative bust of the late president at the building’s main forecourt.
A milestone collaboration on a historic day
Today’s ceremony coincides with what would have been the charismatic leader’s 79th birthday.
To ensure the legacy is accurately projected, the NDC leadership executed the event in strict conjunction with the J.J. Rawlings Foundation, an organisation spearheaded by the Rawlings family to preserve his immense socio-political contributions to modern Ghana.
Renaming the building is a deliberate effort to strengthen internal cohesion and reinforce the party’s ideological identity ahead of upcoming national assignments. By bringing the Rawlings family and the foundation into the heart of the party’s administrative home, the umbrella family aims to remind the rank and file of its foundational principles: probity, accountability, and social justice.
Preserving the revolutionary spark
Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings founded the NDC in 1992, guiding the political formation through the dawn of the Fourth Republic and serving as its first president. His passing in November 2020 left a vast vacuum, but party executives maintain that transforming the Adabraka headquarters into a living monument ensures his revolutionary spark remains active.
The ceremony drew hundreds of passionate party faithful dressed in traditional colours, along with representatives from various alliances, all gathered to witness the official christening of the “Jerry Rawlings House”. Myjoyonline
