CDG-GH Calls on Gov’t to Stop Playing Politics With the Legacy of Rawlings

Late Former President Rawlings

Accra, Ghana, November 15, 2020//-The Caucus for Democratic Governance, Ghana (CDG-GH), has called on the government and politicians to stop playing politics with the legacy of the late former President Jerry John Rawlings.

He died in the early hours of Thursday, November 12, 2020 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana after short illness.

This is highly disrespectful, unacceptable and falls short of national cohesion, according to a press release issued by the Executive Director of CDG-GH, Dr E.K Hayford.

“To open a book of condolence for the late former President J.J Rawlings and to prevent former President John Mahama and NDC National Executives from signing, is – to say the least – unfair and smells politicking”.

The release thinks the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must know, that the NDC since 1992 has been in the trenches with the late Founder J.J Rawlings in their political battles against NPP, and will continue with him in spirit as Founder of the NDC Party.

It therefore  smells hypocritical and contradictory when those who stripped late President Rawlings naked of his Diplomatic Immunity and bitterly challenged his Ghanaian citizenship in court are now shedding crocodile tears and pretending to invoke none existent love for his remains.

CDG-GH can confirm that Mr Rawlings, before his death was a standing member of the NDC, the Founder of the NDC party and life Chairman of the Council of Elders of the NDC party. Anyone who seeks to honour the legacy of Mr Rawlings as a Statesman must first learn to honour his brain work- the NDC party.

African Eye Report

 

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