It’s good the Rawlingses were ‘cut to size’ – Alfred Ogbame

Editor of the Gye Nyame Concord, Alfred Ogbame, seems quite excited about the humiliating defeat suffered by the former first couple during the national delegates’ congress of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the weekend.

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, who challenged President Mills for the flagbearership position of the NDC despite appeals on her to back down on her ambition, was handed a terrible blow of defeat when she received only 90 votes at the Sunyani congress.

And though such a defeat is regarded by many as too humiliating for the former first family – due to their stature in the country’s political arena – Mr Ogbame thinks it was in the right direction that the Rawlingses were rejected by people of their own fold.

At least, he said, it would inform them that they cannot control people forever.

The editor made these remarks on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Thursday.

He said the Rawlingses, due to their stubbornness and failure to heed advice, deserve the state of near oblivion in which they find themselves.

Alfred Ogbame pointed out that Ghana is probably better today than it was in the days of Rawlings’ administration and that despite parading himself as a perfectionist, Mr. Rawlings could not make the nation a “heaven”.

He wondered what the interests of the Rawlingses were as far as Ghana was concerned after they had been in power for over 19 years.

He said it was understandable that Mr Rawlings constantly attacked ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor because the latter belonged to an opposition party but for him (Rawlings) to launch similar attacks on the man he chose and imposed on his people was just unreasonable.

Alfred said he doubted that the Rawlingses expected to meet a welcoming crowd at the Sunyani congress venue since Mr Rawlings had labeled the same people at the congress grounds who had supported him in the past as greedy bastards.

Alfred concluded that the greedy bastards therefore shown Rawlings where power lies by rejecting his wife.

Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana