The internal turmoil hitting the NDC right now is pretty typical of a party which painfully loses an election, as everyone blames everyone else but themselves for the painful loss.
So the bickering between Jerry Rawlings and Martin Amidu and everyone else is simply par for the course – although some of the side stories developing out it are simply hilarious.
Veteran NDC operative and the party’s former Chair, Dr Obed Asamoah, says former President Jerry John Rawlings is not the founder of the party as he’s long been held out to be.
Speaking with Joy News in an interview, Dr Asamoah said at the time the party was initially registered, Rawlings was a member of the armed forces and could not have stood in as one of its founders even if he wanted to.
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan commissioned his eponymous $200,000 ‘Asamoah Gyan’ sports centre at his alma matter on Tuesday.
The Centre comprises an astroturf pitch located on the premises of Accra Academy, where Ghana’s highest ever goalscorer had his secondary education once upon a time.
Want to see some moves? You can’t do much better than former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings on the dancefloor.
Nana Konadu and her husband, Jerry Rawlings, where the toast of the ball Thursday night during the 70th birthday celebrations of the latter.
Dr Zanetor Agyemang Rawlings has penned a sweet message to her daddy, Papa J, as the former head of state turns 70.
‘Dr Boom’, as Flt Lt (rtd) Jerry John Rawlings is known, celebrates his birthday on the 22nd of June.
Owner of the Al-Hajj newspaper and NDC stalwart, Alhaji Bature, has torn into the founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, calling him a corrupt and dishonest personality.
Bature, responding to numerous attacks against the party by Rawlings in his June 4th speech, said Rawlings had no problem taking $5m from a ‘thief’ like former Nigerian military leader Gen Sani Abacha, but instead is always lecturing others about corruption.
Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, says it’s okay for former President Rawlings to conduct politics on a holy day on the Christian calendar, despite saying the same thing was wrong a few weeks ago.
Anyidoho, if you’ll recall, berated Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia after a speech for conducting politics on Easter Monday.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings, delivered a speech Sunday which touched on numerous issues surrounding his revolution and down to the present day condition of Ghana and his beloved party.
The day marked the 38th anniversary of the June 4, 1979 revolutionary coup d’etat, which swept the then young air force officer into power.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has been enskinned as a chief in the Upper West Region.
The Naa of Wa bestowed the former President with the title, Bagrepie naa.
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings have come out to deny reports that he has passed away.
Social media Monday was filled with news that the former President had died after falling ill at his residence.
Three Johns and one king – all the living past Presidents of the Republic met with the current leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at the Flagstaff House today (Tuesday).
The meeting, organised by the incumbent, was to enable the President pick the brains of his predecessors for all the knowledge and experience they picked up during their time in charge of this great nation.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has condemned in no uncertain terms the US airstrike on Syria recently carried out by the Trump administration.
The attack was ostensibly in response to a chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the Assad regime on civilians in the country, which led to Trump ordering an airstrike of Tomahawk missiles to strike the airbase where the planes involved in the attack where based.
