{"id":418712,"date":"2017-09-15T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/15\/its-impossible-to-unseat-akufo-addo-in-2020-rawlings\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:03:15","slug":"its-impossible-to-unseat-akufo-addo-in-2020-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/15\/its-impossible-to-unseat-akufo-addo-in-2020-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s impossible to unseat Akufo Addo in 2020 \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rawlings-and-bola-ray-1080x520-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Former president Jerry John Rawlings believes the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will do more than one term in power.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Rawlings, he\u2019s so far impressed with the achievements of President Nana Akufo-Addo, but emphasized that he [President] can do more.<\/p>\n<p>The Akufo-Addo-led administration has waged a \u2018war\u2019 against the canker of illegal small scale mining popularly known as Galamsey and has deployed a joint police-military taskforce (Operation Vanguard) to ensure it\u2019s successful.<\/p>\n<p>It has also implemented its much touted Free Senior High School Education policy under which government has absorbed tuition and feeding fees at the second cycle level, the paperless systems at the ports and the Registrar General\u2019s department and a National ID card project among others.<\/p>\n<p>President Rawlings, is confident that should the NPP sustain its performance it will be difficult for the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) which he founded to return to power come 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese people think they can unseat this man [Akufo-Addo] in 2020?\u201d the former military ruler quizzed in an interaction with the CEO of EIB Network, Bola Ray (Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi), when the latter called on him to officially invite him to the launch of his biography come September 21, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think it\u2019s not possible?<\/em>\u201d Bola Ray asked.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNPP? After only four years? No!\u201d<\/em> Rawlings stressed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think they are going for eight years?\u201d<\/em> Bola Ray followed up of which Rawlings subtly replied in the affirmative. <em>\u201cIf they do well in enough\u2026 And so far it doesn\u2019t look too bad,<\/em>\u201d Rawlings observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Jerry John Rawlings believes the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will do more than one term in power. According to Mr Rawlings, he\u2019s so far impressed with the achievements of President Nana Akufo-Addo, but emphasized that he [President] can do more. The Akufo-Addo-led administration has waged a \u2018war\u2019 against the canker of illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s impossible to unseat Akufo Addo in 2020 \u2013 Rawlings - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/15\/its-impossible-to-unseat-akufo-addo-in-2020-rawlings\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"It\u2019s impossible to unseat Akufo Addo in 2020 \u2013 Rawlings - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former president Jerry John Rawlings believes the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will do more than one term in power. 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