{"id":396505,"date":"2017-06-21T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/rawlings-dared-to-name-ndc-monkeys-and-baboons\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:37:44","slug":"rawlings-dared-to-name-ndc-monkeys-and-baboons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/rawlings-dared-to-name-ndc-monkeys-and-baboons\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings dared to name NDC ‘monkeys and baboons’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has been challenged to name opportunists responsible for the National Democratic Congress\u2019 humiliating defeat at the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n

A former vice-chairman of the opposition NDC Alhaji Sani Mohammed said Rawlings\u2019 \u201cmonkey dey work and baboon dey chop\u201d comment is too vague.<\/p>\n

Former President Rawlings addressing party supporters June 11 at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra region to mark the party\u2019s Silver Jubilee said that his party is full of \u201cmonkey dey work and baboon dey chop\u201d.<\/p>\n

The founder who is his party\u2019s biggest critic stressed, the values of probity and accountability have been abandoned to allow in greedy opportunists.<\/p>\n

Few in the party take on the founder of late following the NDC\u2019s return to opposition. While his public stature appears to be on the rise, powerful elements in the party have grown quiet on the founder.<\/p>\n

But take the path of resistance, Alhaji Sani Mohammed, said on Asempa FM\u2019s \u201cEko Si S3n\u201d Tuesday, President Rawlings is too fond of making sweeping allegations and blanket attacks on the party he founded in 1992.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot crucify our own people publicly and disgrace them all the time. He was addressing grown-ups and responsible people like himself and so he should know how to talk to us and not cross certain lines,\u201d he slammed.<\/p>\n

He reminded Rawlings, many in the NDC have sacrificed for the party without reward or advantage which Rawlings may have enjoyed while President for 8 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t get anything out of it and so if you stand somewhere to say \u201cmonkey dey work, Baboon dey chop\u201d, then I will ask you who is the monkey and who is the baboon?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should explain further because his children schooled abroad and he failed to show us the person who sponsored their education while some of us, our children couldn\u2019t complete school at \u201cSite O\u201d level; and then who is the Monkey and the Baboon? Who is working and who is chopping?\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Although the former NDC Vice-Chairman acknowledged some party excutives and government officials grew arrogant and abused their offices while in power, he stressed that not everyone in the party is corrupt as Rawlings\u2019 explosive commentary appears to suggest.<\/p>\n

Alhaji Sani Mohammed \u00a0explained Rawlings ought to bear part of the blame for the party\u2019s defeat because Ghanaians bought into his incessant rant that NDC is corrupt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not even complaining why Nana Addo thanked you and your wife after winning the election. What did you do for him before he thanked you? This means you helped him politically; we don\u2019t do that,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n

He wants the former President to exercise restraint in his explosive \u2018boom\u2019 speeches.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know too much complains amount to hatred? So the complains are enough and let\u2019s move forward, but if he continues to talk, I form a different opinion about him. He should leave NDC alone for us; the party doesn\u2019t belong to him,\u201d he jabbed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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