Former president Jerry John Rawlings has said his call for God to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is for members of the party to recognise and appreciate the divinity in noble principles.
He said: “ If we cannot recognise and appreciate the divinity in truthfulness, justice, integrity, loyalty, faithfulness, good work, respect and concern for one another, the environment and the divinity in the golden rule, then the God we are fearing and worshipping is a big waste of time.”
In an interview at his office in Accra on Thursday, the former President asserted, “If we did not subordinate the authority of God to the power of human beings, we would not have been where we are.”
Explaining what he meant by “God should take over the NDC party” the founder of the NDC said “if we gave God his due, we will not have allowed mortals in position of power or authority to get away with negative or corrupt behaviour.”
Truth and candour
Recently, the former President tasked the Volta Regional Caucus of the NDC in Parliament to champion the spirit of truth and candour if they wanted to see unity in the party and give strength to “our people”.
Responding to media reports that he was gunning to take over the NDC, President Rawlings discounted the reports saying, “I wish I could say yes, but I think it sounds better in my ear to say that I want God to come and lead us because of the integrity factor.”
Cause of defeat
Explaining all of these virtues in the good governance process of the country, he told the Daily Graphic that “if reverence to God only appears to exist in theory but not in practice then we are wasting our time. That reverence only appears to exist in theory but not in practice, we seem to have greater fear of mortals than of God,” he strongly asserted.
Former President Rawlings said in spite of the bitter lessons and shocks we suffer every once in a while, and “in spite of our supposed fear of the almighty God, we seem incapable of positioning or planting God above it all.”
NDC investigative body
On how he also perceived the investigative body of the NDC and to what extent he thought it was going to address the party’s setback, he was of the impression that “some members of that body lack the moral standing to be on it.”
In his view, subordinating people such as Mr Huudu Yahaya and a former Speaker of Parliament, Mr Doe Adjaho, among others, on the committee was an affront to their image.
Besides, the former President pointed out that some of the committee members knew nothing about it prior to the announcement and neither was the party’s Council of Elders consulted as the announcement claimed.
“This is nothing more than power play and an attempt by elements in a faction to whitewash themselves. They feel John Mahama has been kicked out and it’s their chance to stage a comeback using an investigative body to claim some legitimacy,” he reasoned.
According to the former President and founder of the NDC, “when Dr Bawumia was persistently attacking the NDC’s economic policies and performance, where were some of our professors when they were needed to counter the NPP’s criticisms?
“Some of them are downright opportunists and are never seen or heard taking on the opposition but are quick to hop onto any image-building vehicle of the party,” he underscored.
Source: Daily Graphic
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well said founder god will punish them all but npp propaganda machinery will not work cos of their weak promises
God finished creating the world in six days and handed it over to Adam and his descendants to manage it. God no longer interferes in the management let alone of your party. He expect that you will reduce your holier than thou attitude and support the young ones to take over by being tolerant just as they have been tolerant with your daughter. The holier than thou attitude of you and your wife can only turn the NDC into another CPP or PNC which have won power before but can never win power again. Better sit up
The president in-law you and your wife are hypocrite's you have deceived some of as but get this straight, the NDC party is not for you and your family is a public institution so stop these nonsenses. If you die Carry it go to your grave your say some party member's are greedyy bustard's but its you n your wife that are greedy bustard's Hypocritee we will do the party even if u join npp.God should rather save you .
ROCE KORAN< TRUTH HURTS SO PLEASE GO SIT SOMEWHERE AND LET TRUTH BE TOLD. MY FRIEND!
Massa; do not ice on me please !!!!!because JJ Rawlings is the most dubious species which ever existed in the Ghanaian fold and the cause of Ghanas woes today ;for your information ; JJ Rawlings was not the founder of the NDC ; if you must know the truth the NDC party was set up by a group of people amongst them ; Kodzi Tsikata ; Fui Tsikata ; Tsatsu Tsikata ; PV Obeng ; ET Mensah ; Asiedu Nketia ;Kwesi Botwe ; Ndebgure ; Tot.obi Kwakye ; Awoonor Williams ; Portuphy ; because JJ Rawlings at the time was full with matters of state ; this group set up the party to contest the elections because JJ Rawlings was warned by the US that they will cut funding if he does not handover power ; the mediator was Kofi Annan ; a party was set to compete for the elections and JJ Rawling was again push foward as the leader and founder of the NDC party so he can contest for the presidency and enhance the status of the party ;as time went on people lost respect for him because JJ Rawlings was uless; even Asiedu Nketia calledhim names as the MAD DOG !!!;the ewe/ayigbe people includin Kodzo Tsikata took over the party till today ; the same thing happened when Major Boakye folishly relinquished his position as the leader of the coup which saved JJ Rawlings from death about to be exceuted by Gen Akuffo ; JJ Rawlings was therefore never the founder of the NDC ; this idea that if JJ Rawlings does not take over the party; the party will collaspse is a complete myth because the party does not have any ideological basis and because the party was founded by a miss marsh of corrupt stillers JJ Rawlings deliberately imposed this Phoney concept of ; accountability; transparency and probity which he did not understand and was not prepared to adhere to ; today what happened to these words; wh did JJ Rawlings account to in Ghana and hoew traparent was his dealing with Ghanaians when he received $5million dollars from Sanni Abacha and how was probity applied to when he was in power ; when he sold state assets to his wife ; a party when set is grounded in honesty and truth that people can follow ; HAS THE NDC PARTY GOT ANY SUCH PRINCIPLES -NO !!!!!; the NDC as party is not any of these words ; the party cannot even define whether it is a sicialuist ; capitalist or communist party ; the performance of the past NDC government tells every Ghanaian that the party is full of maggots and stillers ; illeterate educated greedy people ; people without any experience but wish to manage the affairs of state; JJ Rawlings is smart because the man knows that even if he gets up and takes over the party ; the party NDC IS DOOOMED because they liars ; thiffs ; misfits ; dishonest people whom Ghanaians will never vote for again !!!!!!; IF I WERE JJ RAWLINGS I WILL STAY CLEAR OF THESE PARTY VULTURES AND !!!!!!PETTY STREET PICKPOCKETS !AND BANDITS !!!!!
DURING THE BOAM TIME OF JJ MANY PEOPLE HAD A LOT TO SAY ABOUT HIM. SOME SAID HE WILL GO MAD BEFORE DEATH AND OTHERS THINK HE WILL BECOME A PASTOR PRECEDING HIS DEATH. FROM WHAT I READ JJ SEEMS TO BECOME A PASTOR AND MAY SOON COME OUT WITH A CHURCH TO COMPETE WITH PEOPLE LIKE OBINIM, PROPHET 1, DUNCAN WILLIAMS AND CO. INTERESTING TIME AHEAD.
Rice Koran,why don't you ask your father to also form a party so you can join? If Rawlings is a conman then you are also a conman because what made you join that party?his con ideology was what convinced you to join his party. I'm telling you ndc is JJ Rawlings and JJ Rawlings is ndc,he brought the party back to power when you were in opposition and ndc used that incumbency to rig the 2012 elections with less than 300,000 votes he decided to stay away from your campaign and ndc lost by 1.5 million margin which has sent you to perpetual opposition. Ndc is his blood and sweat so he has every right to talk about the wrongs in his party. All those professors you think he hate them came to light because of Rawlings and they didn't come with PHDS they came with just first degrees and they got money to further their education because of Rawlings. It hurts to see people you saw to their way up to betray you,President Rawlings is not a kid and he is the wisest person in the ndc now and he knows what he is talking about,Rawlings in his youthful time as head of state and President was far better than John Mahama at 50 something as vice and president. I can see President Rawlings trouble is about the so called Fanti caucus in the ndc,he thinks they are not trust worthy and I can see he doesn't believe in them. He haunted Arkaah and Prof. Mills till they died and now on those Fanti caucus he might know something about them that the rest of Ghanaians don't know. Time will Tell Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I think NDC should forget about this conman founder who have made some people his enemies within the NDC. If the Kwesi Botchway et all were quiet, NDC supporters did not see them openly undermine the NDC as the founder and his wife. JJ should rather explain his traitorous behavior to NDC rather than pointing at others and accusing them of anything