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Rawlings denies responsibility for Mills' ill-health rumor
Accra, Feb. 4, Ghanadot/GNA –
Reacting to insinuations and
media reports that he and his wife were behind the health
publications of the party’s Presidential Candidate,
Professor John Evans Atta Mills and the "Bring Mills Down"
campaign, Former President Rawlings described the situation
as very disturbing.
The former President, speaking
through the press on Monday urged all members of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pursue the interests
of the party in an atmosphere of unity and strength that
would make the party to be victorious in the December
elections.
He said, “more disturbing is the extremely disgraceful
publication on the worldwide web that the NDC Presidential
candidate had given up the ghost in South Africa.”
President Rawlings said he had at all times maintained close
contact with Prof Mills and was aware of Prof. Mills'
condition and his ability to help rid the country of the
opportunists who were convinced that they now owned Ghana.
President Rawlings said he believed that every member of the
NDC still has the right to open discourse and to raise
concerns even about the health of the party leader when need
be, but that ought to be done with utmost circumspect and
decorum.
He said Ghana was at the precipice of a political disaster
because of the mismanagement of every aspect of the county’s
social fabric by the New Patriotic Party led by President
J.A. Kufuor and which now has Nana Akufo Addo as its
Presidential candidate.
“Having recognized how formidable the opposition has become
because of the gross disenchantment of Ghanaians and
recognizing the fact that a clean campaign will lead to an
embarrassing loss in December the NPP supported by sections
of the media who lack ethics and balance in their reportage
have resorted to mudslinging and below-the-belt tactics to
win the election”.
President Rawlings cautioned that, “the NDC as a party had
to be very wary of those devious machinations and rather
present a united front to disabuse the populace of desperate
antics.”
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