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Veteran Journalist and Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr. has rubbished the relevance of the June 4th celebration and emphatically proclaimed that �there�s something wrong� with former President Jerry John Rawlings. Speaking on Peace FM�s �Kokrokoo�, Kweku Baako wondered why former President Rawlings still holds onto the tenets of June 4th when to him, he (Rawlings) failed to uphold the �probity and accountability� mantra of the revolution. According to him, Ex-President Rawlings should not assume to have a distinct character because he leading the PNDC front could not have some public accounts audited. He also accused him of masterminding a plot to assassinate Dr. Hilla Limann, Ghana�s former President and leader of the People�s National Party from September 1979 to December 31, 1981. �Rawlings set up a plot to assassinate Boakye Gyan and Mensah Poku on the day of the handing over so that they can announce a national emergency and ensure that there will be no handing over,� but if his attempt had not been averted, the country would have become a �bloody zone�, he stressed. Disclosing that he is an adherent of June 4th, the New Crusading Guide editor however told host of the morning programme, Kwami Sefa-Kayi, that he �feels hugely betrayed� by the proponents of the celebration. He was therefore of a strong view that the June 4th commemoration should be scraped because it has outlived its usefulness. �The sacrifice of the principles of June 4th by Jerry Rawlings and others who were part of that AFRC team makes nonsense of any commemoration or celebration. From 1979, [that my group�], we said there was no need for celebration.� He also slammed Mr. Rawlings for his recent outburst on his successors; former Presidents J.A Kufour and the late J.E.A Mills, saying it�s unfair because he (Rawlings) doesn�t �have anything to hold on. I�m telling Mr. Rawlings. He has absolutely nothing to hold onto.� �Why don�t you leave this thing alone, especially when there�s so called �gains� that most tangible one; restoration of constitutional rule was murdered and buried on 31st December 1991?� he queried him, emphasizing that �there�s something wrong with Mr. Rawlings. There�s something wrong. The selectivity, that selective amnesia driving him to see everything; I mean he�s the best thing that happened to Ghana. He does no wrong. He�s never committed any error.�