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The 32nd Commemoration of the June 4th Uprising has ended in Kumasi, and as usual Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings took centre stage pouring out venom once again on the Mills' administration whiles addressing the crowd at the Jubilee Park.
Sounding angry at the way the country was being governed, the former President, who spoke right after the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings' address, said there was the need to inject more committed and selfless young people into government than these group of old obstructive, Greedy and Selfish characters currently in power.
�Free and fair elections can also be very tricky as we keep discovering all the time...the list is huge, disinformation, misuse of money, etc to destroy good people and they use money to flash around and virtually buy people and at the end of the day your vote, your conscience is being bought and the wrong people are back in power."
�What I think we owe this country is to be able to take back our government, take back our party, take back this nation, clean around and prepare, identify a more responsible discipline younger generation and pass the development programme unto them to move this country forward," President Rawlings noted in his speech.
He opined that the former First Lady "is not interested in that chair, in that throne, in that seat, we�ve made a mistake that has taken us back and instead of working our way forward, we appear to be continuing in that direction when you gave us back the power�that is when she (Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings) said no let�s take it back, not to sit on it but to rectify the mistake that were made, solidify it as we pass it on to a younger generation to move this country onward,� Mr. Rawlings said.
According to him, the party made it even more difficult for his wife and now NDC Presidential aspirant, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings when she was the Vice Chairperson to exercise her duties to the extent that allocating her an office was a problem.
He accused the government and the party of sabotaging his wife in her day-to-day activities.
�The party headquarters was there, she has been elected as first Vice (President), she was being sabotaged left and right from both the Presidency, the government as well as the party hierarchy�.jobs she should be doing, so she decided to stay in her office...to give her an office was even a problem,� he stated in reference to the treatment that was meted out to the former first lady.
The former President revealed that Gizelle Yatzi, the woman who claims to have twins for ex-president Kufuor was at a point in time ready to come down to Ghana and reveal the alleged corruption under his (Kufuor's) regime, but sadly, a top member within the NDC foiled that attempt.
Touching on the impending Congress in Sunyani next month, Mr. Raelings described it as the party's "moment of truth".
According to him, the former First Lady will win the primaries and will be the changing force within the NDC, adding that in the unlikely event that President Mills refuses to accept the will of the delegates �the inevitable will happen.�
Whatever that meant, he did not elaborate.
Source: Alex Ofei/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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