‘The potential of Vice President Mahama as President of Ghana is Mr. Rawlings’s target and not President Mills as some people think,’ the movement said at a press conference.
Geoffrey W. Tuu, the Regional Secretary of the movement, said
President Mills was not the target because with his track record of performance, he would win, hands down, the delegates’ congress as well as the 2012 polls.
He said former President Rawlings should be aware that members of the movement, and other clear-minded cadres, would not support hero-worshipping anymore.
He said the days of using people were over and that power could not be resided in one man alone, or be a property of a man and a wife.
‘It is now time to work with people and that is what
President Mills is doing with his able and affable Vice President
Mahama,’ Mr Tuu said.
Mr. Tuu reminded former President Rawlings that the movement was not borne out of such ‘segregation’ principles, or existed to propel self centeredness and dynastic ambitions.
He appealed to all delegates throughout the country to exercise
their franchise with dignity and respect for objectivity, truth and
reality.
Mr. Tuu said at the advent of constitutional rule, all cadres
were advised to step aside and were virtually dumped.
He said the few who were considered for appointment during former President Rawlings’s administration suffered various forms of humiliation when they dared to speak out for the betterment of the system.
Vice President Mahama was one of such persons, among a few, who had been identified as someone with credibility and high leadership qualities and hence must not be allowed to be destroyed by egocentric individuals.
Mr. Tuu said, ‘As members of the movement, we gave every support to Rawlings which was relevant at the time. We are also not ignorant of the sacrifices he made, going through torture and other forms of military brutalities, at the time, under the powers that be,’ Mr. Tuu said.
However, he said, the former president should be reminded that all the successes he chalked were through the support of others, notably members of the June Four Movement, and other gallant cadres of the December 31 Revolution, as well as indefatigable individuals, some of whom were still alive.
‘The NDC cannot therefore be a property of a man and a wife or for a family alone’, Mr. Tuu said.
GNA
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