NDC can snap out of its frustrations only if it apologizes to Rawlings – Former DCE

A former District Chief Executive for Sekyere East, Kwadwo Addae, has insisted that the surest way to accomplish the rebuilding of the biggest opposition National Democratic Congress is for the rank and file of the party to apologize to ex-President Rawlings and his family to return to the party.

According to Mr Addae, should the NDC be able to woo the ex-military leader back to the NDC, it will help the party regroup properly and make inroads in its quest to snatch power from the governing party in the next general elections.

The neglect of Mr Rawlings in the run up to last year’s polls explains the reasons for the NDC’s struggles in recent times and the worst defeat it saw in the 2016 elections.

He told host Fiifi Banson that if the NDC party is to survive its woes and come out from the woods, the Kwesi Botchway committee must take the initiative to go the former leader and beg him to get involved in re-positioning the party for electoral success.

“Ever since the NDC lost the election to the NPP, I have had the opportunity to talk once to Dr Kwabena Duffuor, former Finance Minister, on phone and I told him that any attempt to build the NDC to a winsome political party, we need to seek the active involvement of H.E Jerry John Rawlings; without him, any attempt will be a total failure.

“Rawlings is the founder and pillar of NDC. We must not lose sight of Rawlings signing the manifesto of NDC with his blood. H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, in his desperate wish to become the President of Ghana, saw the urgent need to get closer to the Rawlings family, first through Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.

“NDC activists couldn’t be smart enough to see through the actions and inactions of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and withdrew from Nana Konadu and disgraced her and the Rawlings family. Those who felt the NDC could stand the test of all the wrangling in the NDC without Rawlings and his family should have known that NDC could not do anything without Rawlings. Without Rawlings, NDC would definitely be existing only as an opposition party. “