{"id":451329,"date":"2018-01-01T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/01\/i-couldnt-have-criticized-npp-when-ndc-was-burning-rawlings-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:08:07","slug":"i-couldnt-have-criticized-npp-when-ndc-was-burning-rawlings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/01\/i-couldnt-have-criticized-npp-when-ndc-was-burning-rawlings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I couldn\u2019t have criticized NPP when NDC was burning \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  1 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/95798059.295.jpg\" alt=\"J Blue\" title=\"J Blue\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President Jerry John Rawlings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1514794087_64_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings has slammed persons he describes as \u2018latter-day party officials\u2019 of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) who have made it their job to denigrate him for criticizing the wrongs in the party when it was in power.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, many of these \u2018political novices\u2019 who want to excite their paymasters do not know the countless times his wise counsel to the party was ignored and treated with contempt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot lay claim to the position of party founder and spend time criticizing another party or institution when my own house is burning. Removing the log in my own eyes is the only way to legitimize my right to expose the speck in another,\u201d Ex-President Rawlings said while addressing a gathering at the 36th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution in the Volta Regional capital, Ho on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He charged members the NDC to rebuild the party on the ideals of the 31st December revolution or risk being in political oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>According to ex-President Rawlings, the NDC\u2019s defeat at the last elections was self inflicted as result of sheer acts corruption perpetuated by some appointees.<\/p>\n<p>As such, he wants party faithful to actively participate the reorganization process and elect persons with high strength of character to lead the party.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGhanaHomePage%2Fvideos%2F1752686288142095%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>General News of Monday, 1 January 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-01-01 play videoFormer President Jerry John Rawlings Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings has slammed persons he describes as \u2018latter-day party officials\u2019 of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) who have made it their job to denigrate him for criticizing the wrongs in the party when it was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":451330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}