NDC founder JJ Rawlings has said the party must do a house cleaning in order to defeat President Akufo-Addo and the NPP in the 2020 elections.
The former military leader who had earlier told Bola Ray that was impossible to defeat the NPP in the next elections, in a volte-face, told TV3 that although the NDC can defeat the elephant family, a lot must be done.
“Let me simply say, that I will very much want to see the NPP beaten but do we have what it takes? Do we have the capacity to be able to wrestle power from them?
“The most important factor I believe has to do with the issue of the cleanup that needs to be done; the restoration of our integrity. We don’t like to hear it but I keep repeating it. We have to go back, seek a moral high ground and I believe we know what to do but I don’t think we are prepared to confront it or that’s what I’ve noticed about some of our people.
“The manner in which the electoral process has been happening since Sunyani has not been encouraging. It’s unfortunate, most unfortunate how come we lost the moral high grounds. I think they know what needs to be done,” he said, adding, “Let’s give the party back to them, they are the ones who actually make it possible to win or lose elections, let’s respect their views, lets respect their pain, their sensitivity.”
I am not understand somethings sometimes we all wish to be better all so if someone is doing it better why we all don’t shall good l dears to the person to make it good, instead of you to bring your plans then you are thinking about how to fall the good plans of of the person to up, if we continue for how can we build the nation? Better fine work to do than your seeking someone’s fall it won help us stop that foolish poitiers and think better.
Indeed, what the NDC-Founder Jerry Rawlings said is the fact, significant of which blew Dramani Mahama government out of power in the last Ghana elections in December 2016. The Mahama NDC government did not only pilfer from state; it coveted other’s [including its own member’s] property for it so-called elite. Yes; on Sunday 18th October 2015, the then Metro Chief Executive of Tema, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, in one such property-stealing move, personally led a Convoy of well armed police personnel onto my private property at the Community 20, Lashibi, in a bid to seizing my plot of land for his friend one Benjamin Adu. Although I reported this direct to the Mahama Fragstaff House office, it turned deaf ears to my petition. Kudalor police were also bribed through; in fact, the then Land Guard Head office, in fact the Commander himself – William Kpormegbe did the pretension of duty for obvious reasons. The Property Fraud Unit Commanders were worse and, in fact, the Station officer, that elderly man at the PFU should be quickly replaced as money as little as GHc5,00 excites him to glitch reported cases.
Yes, the Former President and NDC Founder knows about this case as Petition was sent him too, as Chairman of Council of Elders of that party – founded on principle of Probity and Accountability. The NDC sure needs a vigorous implosive purging, if it should touch political power again soon. The last crop of NDC Leaders in government proved not to be trustworthy.