The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama and his party has been accused of sponsoring attacks on the founder of the party, late Jerry John Rawlings. These actions, as alleged by the Secretary-General of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Alhaji Mohammed Frimpong, was a deliberate act executed to ‘shackle’ the late founder.
Recounting how the late J.J Rawlings suffered at the hands of the John Mahama and his crop of leadership during his final days, Alhaji Frimpong revealed that the founder and the wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings were demoralized and alienated from the very party they ‘bled’ to establish in an era of chaos and political instability.
The Secretary-General fingered former President Mahama for being the mastermind to the numerous attacks on the late founder. He cried that J.J Rawlings was practically ‘murdered’ even when he was alive. He recounted that the barrage of insults, humiliation, and disregard Rawlings endured under John Mahama’s leadership, was traumatizing.
He disclosed that John Mahama and his new fellowship in the NDC sponsored media publications to spite and drag the name of the Founder into disrepute, “so they could take over the helms of the party.”
“These actions were deliberate and orchestrated by the Mahama led government to hurt Jerry John Rawlings and kill his soul even when he was alive.”
Alhaji Frimpong charged that the NDP will go to the extreme to expose the hypocrisy in the NDC, whom he noted are attempting to right their wrongs and the evil they committed against the founder of the party.
“We will want to serve notice to the public that we will expose those who are making feverish attempts to rewrite their despicable opinions about President Rawlings and readjust their abhorrence for the man after all the sacrifices he made for them.
“And now upon his demise, they are seeking the limelight for more personal political gain. How dare they? If John Mahama managed to profit from President Mills, he should not be allowed to do same with the demise of our beloved President Jerry John Rawlings, and Ghanaians should not and will not oblige that.”
He cursed that John Mahama and the NDC will fail in their attempt to salvage some political points with their persuasive funeral arrangements for the late Founder.
“When Jerry Rawlings was alive, John Mahama sowed desperately to silence him. And now that JJ is no more, John Mahama finds it expedient to utilize his death to galvanize support for weakening base within the NDC’s rank and file and salvage his 2020 campaign which is going nowhere,” Alhaji Frimpong lamented.