The absence of Jerry John Rawlings from activities the National Democratic Congress staged prior to the 2016 general elections, left the party looking like a body without a soul.
Figures recorded in the aftermath of the elections would go down as one of the most embarrassing defeat a major political party has suffered in the history of Ghana. And one person who decided that was Rawlings- take him out of the NDC and the party is dead, Alhaji Dori has observed.
As the party makes strides to challenge the New Patriotic Party in 2020, Alhaji Dori, a stalwart of the NDC, has warned that the unnecessary bickering and power play in the party must put to the back-burner.
Speaking to Peacefmonline.com, Alhaji Dori, a former parliamentary aspirant of Bawku Central constituency noted that ex-President Rawlings has the silent majority backing any decision he takes within the party; making it impossible to leave him out of every step the NDC takes.
“Rawlings has since been an icon and a force to reckon with in the political fortunes of the NDC and this is evidential especially if he mounts the podium to address party folks. His philosophical speeches and constant reminder to our party leaders to uphold the core principles and values proves he is a born leader.”
In 2008, the NDC was able to bounce back to power and Alhaji Dori insists majority of the credit must be given to ex-president Rawlings for his support.
“Rawlings has a way of pulling the crowd especially when he appears or hit the campaign grounds as he did in 2008 which saw the comeback of the NDC to government. By virtue of being the founder of the party and ruling this country for almost 20 years, he has grounded himself with core loyal NDC members who look up to him for inspiration and directions.”
He continued that “Rawlings has a gifted charisma that has since center staged his political career, we must not mess with him. As a party, we can take advantage of that to our fortunes going forward.”
Alhaji Dori ended by appealing to the leadership of the NDC to try hard and manage their ego in dealing with Rawlings.
“He has the numbers and large followers who will always go with his decision to either support or not support the party before, during and after elections”, he advised.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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Ghanaians were just fed up with the Mahama led administration because it had run short of ideas. Rawlings is not the solution to NDC. He is as corrupt as all the governments we've had except Osagyefo Nkrumah. How many of Rawlings children did their university education in Ghana? Do you think his family is not culpable of any financial malfeasance in his 19 years rule of our country? Please let's stop behaving as if the Rawlings are saints. It is for the sake of people like Dori that the average Ghanaian and the common keeps failing to get to the top. Such people will do anything to make sure people at the grass level never get to the top by maligning them. But we're waiting for the days when the masses would be fully aware, they could equally be at the top of affairs of the nation as in the days of Nkrumah. Ghana is not for the elite Akyems and the few oligarchs whose grandparents dined with the Colonial masters and sold our destiny by allowing the CIA to use them to destabilize Ghana and truncate the reign of Nkrumah.
ALHAJI DORI IBN BAA KOMI, YOU HAVE SPOKEN WELL BUT WILL THE RAWLINGS HATERS IN THE PARTY LISTEN. ?
This goes to all the guys in NDC who thinks they can form some alliance with Rawlings to kill the NDC. they might have succeeded in this their latest attempt to send the NDC into opposition but i am telling them they can never KILL the NDC PARTY. Any body who will take advantage to the present situation in NDC to hide behind Rawlings to make attempt to lead NDC will fail big time. Mr. Rawlings is the problem behind Ndc FAILURE and shall resist any attempt to make him put his people to lead the NDC so long as our leaders will be elected by congress.
good for nothing boot licker