Former President Jerry John Rawlings welcomed Dr. Ekwow Spio-Gabrah, the third force in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential jigsaw, to his office in Accra yesterday, and sent a special message to the sitting President. \u201cBlind loyalty,\u201d he said, \u201cwill bring Prof. John Evans Atta Mills down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah had called on the ex-President, who is also the Founder of the ruling NDC, for his blessings and support, as he seeks to contest President Mills and Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings in the party\u2019s presidential primary, scheduled to take place at Sunyani from July 8-10, this year.<\/p>\n
According to Flt. Lt. Rawlings, the NDC of today was creating the impression that it had no candidate worthy to be a president, hence the use of intimidation by the government, using state apparatus to cow potential presidential candidates from standing up to lead the party. \u201cI thought this is just most unfair. I had an occasion to tell the Professor that blind loyalty to him does not help.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said if the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) could produce over twenty or fifty presidential candidates, why couldn\u2019t the NDC, with people of self conviction and intellectual prowess among many others, who stand on the foundation of strong conviction and truth, produce three times the number of presidential candidates than the NPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve created the impression as if we don\u2019t have them. Whatever happened, we ended up looking incorrect. That is not good enough, and now we are paying the price for it,\u201d he added, drawing applause from the teeming crowd of party faithful, who had trooped to his office to lend their support.<\/p>\n
Wearing white apparel, with his right arm in a brown bandage, Flt. Lt. Rawlings threw a barrage of criticisms at Prof. Mills for doing too little to improve on the lot of Ghanaians, especially, party faithful at the grassroots.<\/p>\n
According to him, if the performance of the President Mills-led administration had been good, nobody would have ever dared to contest him for the flagbearership slot of the party.<\/p>\n
He accused Presidential Mills\u2019 camp of intimidation and concocting all manner of stories against his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, in the NDC flagbearership race. \u201cThe presidency is using money and state apparatus to threaten party delegates,\u201d he alleged.
He again, accused the President Mills\u2019 camp of paying delegates for them to wear the President\u2019s T-shirts. \u201cThose wearing Konadu\u2019s T-shirts paid for them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Mr. Rawlings said due to intimidation from the camp of the President, some delegates had compromised their positions, but stressed that the use of intimidation and money to influence delegates would cost the party in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n
He said defeat was staring the party in the face, and the sooner they changed gear, the better the chances of retaining power in election 2012. He said the NDC was built out of a value system \u2013 truth \u2013 hence its ability to survive June 4 and December 31, till date.<\/p>\n
He, therefore, cautioned party faithful to be wary of the grand manipulations of the government, which is seeking to subvert the popular will of the people, by corrupting the electoral process in the lead up to the delegates\u2019 congress, and urged them to keep the fighting spirit of the NDC intact, to ensure victory for the party in election 2012.<\/p>\n
Dr. Spio-Garbrah, in asking for Mr. Rawlings\u2019 blessings, described himself to the gathering as the \u2018Sei Dena Ali\u2019 in the Holy Quran.
Reading from 1st Samuel 17:34 in the Holy Bible, Dr. Spio-Garbrah described himself again as David who sought the blessings of God to lead the Israelites in conquering the Palestinians.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll that I am seeking from the Founder of the party is that Ekwow go and the Lord be with you,\u201d he said. He asserted that there was nobody in the NDC who had won the presidential primaries without the support of the Founder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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