The rift between President Mills, Vice President John Mahama and the founder of the ruling National Democratic Congress, JJ Rawlings that existed between these three personalities prior to last Saturday’s congress has grown even bigger than anticipated.
Information reaching the New Statesman indicates that a delegation sent by the President and his vice to seek audience with the founder ostensibly to propose a meeting between the three personalities was literally thrown out of the founder’s premises as he bluntly refused to meet them after finding out what their intention was. Rawlings had earlier indicated in a meeting last Tuesday when a group of NDC concerned members called on him that he has no plans of campaigning for the party’s 2012 presidential candidate John Evans Mills ever again.
In a quote attributed to the founder by Brogya Genfi, spokesperson for NDC youth in Ashanti, who was present at the meeting, the founder said, “I will not follow cowards to war because if you do, you will end up fighting alone because they (President Mills and John Mahama) will end up running and leaving you in the middle of the war”.
Former President Rawlings explained that people have fought similar fights before and left the party and although he has no intention of joining the campaign trail of its presidential candidate for the next general election, there was no way he will ever leave the NDC as long as he remained its founder unless people decided to change the party’s constitution which gives him that power.
Source: GhanaWeb
