PREAMBLE Comrades, honestly, the actions and inactions of our founder JJ Rawlings bring more condemnation to the NDC PARTY than votes. He’s speedily eroding the gains the party has chalked over the years. Let’s stand and put up positive defiance against JJ. Remember, the NDC party belongs to all of us but not one person, … Read more
Ghana’s former President and leader of the 31st December Revolution, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has charged the silent majority in the ruling party to “restore and protect the legacy that we fought for from the beginning.” “Let me assert my firm belief that the intrinsic ability of the NDC to rejuvenate and recapture the … Read more
Political style and approach will always be different as leadership changes, but the ideals and basis for the establishment of a political cause cannot be toyed with. Unfortunately that is the situation the current NDC finds itself. We have to sadly admit that the there is a breakdown of values in the NDC and many … Read more
I don’t begrudge our one-term lame-duck President, John Dramani Mahama, his share of due credit for the success of our constitutional democratic culture, but I find it quite amusing that President-Elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would so fulsomely commend the man who defeated him in 2012, under very dubious circumstances, for conceding a more than convincing … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has admonished followers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to work assiduously to weed out “evil natured” people who have infiltrated the ranks of the party. Speaking at the 35th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution in Accra, the former president took a dig at the leadership of the NDC … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by President John Mahama lost the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections because the party neglected its moral standing, former president Jerry John Rawlings has said. According to him, the massive defeat of the party was long expected, owing to the actions and inactions of government officials and other … Read more
If the outgoing National Democratic Congress (NDC) government does not openly show remorse for betraying its supporters and Ghanaians with its electoral defeat in 2016, the party will not recover in time for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary polls, former president Jerry John Rawlings has warned. Speaking on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has lashed out at the present crop of leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), wondering how he has been made a “scapegoat” for the massive defeat the party suffered in the December 7 elections. He has, therefore, called for “some careful introspection” in order to get the party he … Read more
Even as NDC is trying to understand the reasons behind its serious defeat in the just concluded polls, the country’s former president, John Rawlings has linked the party’s defeat to corruption. According to him, NDC’s defeat was as a result of the corruption of government officials who are also uncouth and uncultured. He added that Mahama’s administration … Read more
Ghana’s former President and leader of the 31st December Revolution, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says the NDC’s massive rejection at the polls is a clear indication that the party has lost the moral high ground. The former President said the NDC lost the elections way before December 7 because it chose to “persistently and … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings is baffled some elements within the National Democratic Congress would conveniently point accusing fingers at him for the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2016 general elections. The sitting president, John Dramani Mahama was beaten in excess of one million votes by opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo, whilst the NDC lost over … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has lashed out at the present crop of leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), wondering how he has been made a “scape goat” for the massive defeat the party suffered in the December 7 elections. He has, therefore, called for “some careful introspection” in order to get the party … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has urged the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to carry out some “introspection” and identify the factors for its loss in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, instead of pointing an accusing finger at him for its electoral misfortune. He said the party leadership, by losing the “moral high ground”, … Read more
Ghana’s former President and leader of the 31st December Revolution, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says the NDC’s massive rejection at the polls is a clear indication that the party has lost the moral high ground. The former President said the NDC lost the elections way before December 7 because it chose to “persistently and … Read more
Ex-President John Rawlings has blamed what he says is the humiliating defeat of the National Democratic Congress on corrupt, uncouth, and uncultured government officials. According to him the incumbent government lost the elections way before December 7 but the arrogance of power blinded the Mahama led administration of seeing the writing on the wall. In … Read more
Leading members of the 31st December revolution, including former president Jerry John Rawlings, will today Saturday lay a wreath and witness a parade to mark the 35th anniversary of the uprising at the Revolutionary Square in Accra. The December 31 revolution of 1981 was led by Mr Rawlings, then a flight lieutenant in the Ghana … Read more
To do obsequious sorrow; but to persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; ‘its unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect to Heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschool’d For what, we know, must be, and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to … Read more
“I am asking for nothing less than a revolution- a revolution that would transform the socio-economic structures of the country’’. That was Jerry Rawlings on 31st December 1981 who further said that he was prepared to face the firing squad if what he had initiated was not acceptable to the majority of the Ghanaian people. … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings is scheduled to address the 35th anniversary of the December 31 Revolution that ushered in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). A wreath-laying ceremony and parade has been scheduled to be held at the Revolutionary Square in Accra on Saturday, December 31. The theme for this year’s ceremony is ‘31st … Read more
Former President Jerry John Rawlings is scheduled to address the 35th anniversary of the December 31 Revolution that ushered in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). A wreath-laying ceremony and parade has been scheduled to be held at the Revolutionary Square in Accra on Saturday, December 31. The theme for this year’s ceremony is ‘31st … Read more