Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has predicted doom for the party come December 2012 when Ghana goes for the polls to elect a president.
He believes there is no way the NDC, as a party, can go into any given election and win without the party�s founder, former President Jerry John Rawlings, on its campaign trail as long as he is alive.
In an interview yesterday, Mr Adams said, �It is impossible� I don�t see it happening that an NDC party will go into an election and win it when President Rawlings is not involved and he is alive not that he is dead and gone.
�It is not possible for the NDC to win an election without the active involvement of President Rawlings because of his influence in the party.
�You think when President Rawlings is not involved in the party�s activities, we can win an election?
�Even when he was involved, it was difficult for us then, (referring to 2008) how much more when he is not involved.�
Kofi Adams�s comments come days after the NDC Member of Parliament for Shai Osudoku, David Tetteh-Asumeng, demanded that the national executives of the party unite the two leading figures in the party or resign their positions, believing that the frosty relations between them could affect the chances of the party in the 2012 general elections.
He gave the executive up to December ending to perform the task of uniting Mills and Rawlings, warning of an imminent defeat if they failed to do so.
However, NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu-Nketia has ridiculed the MP�s end-of-year ultimatum since the MP has no right to be issuing such threats to the national executives.
He believed that the ultimatum issued by the MP betrayed his ignorance of the party�s constitution.
Kofi Adams however insisted that �those who are talking unity are missing the point. There are fundamental issues that he feels affect this nation and the party generally and those are what he wants the government to tackle and not about unity.�
�If it�s (about unity) he (Rawlings) is ready to sleep with President Mills on the same bed, eat with him at the same place thousand times and he likened it to the situation when you are sick, it is not the doctor coming to sit by you or eat with you that will heal you of your sickness. You have to take your medicine; the medicine will have to go into you. So those who keep talking about unity, they are missing the point,� the special aide to the former president explained.
On the relationship between the former President and President Mills, which leading member and self-acclaimed financier of the NDC, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, claimed to be cordial since they talked to each other every other day, Mr Adams shot back, �Maybe, he has created the replica of President Rawlings because that is not the one I speak for or know. Maybe he knows what I do not know.�
Adams insinuated that Mr Woyome would be the best person to speak to the claims that the gentlemen spoke daily: �So maybe, Woyome should be the one to come and answer.�
It will be recalled that DAILY GUIDE exclusively reported recently that President Mills had been calling the former president early in the morning to greet him, a gesture that appeared to be efforts to break the ice between them.
However, the calls were said to come so early that they had become a nuisance to the NDC founder.
President Mills: �Mr. President, how are you?�
Mr Rawlings: �I am okay.�
President Mills: �Mr. President, is there anything that I can do for you this morning?�
Mr. Rawlings: �No, I am okay.�
President Mills would then bid Mr Rawlings good-bye and promise to call the following morning.
These calls, according to the source, had been going on for sometime now to the discomfiture of the NDC founder who had been complaining of his apparent neglect in the party.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
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