NDC divided on integrity – Rawlings

The opposition National Democratic Congress is sharply divided between those with integrity and those without, former President Jerry John Rawlings has said.

In an obvious reference to former deputy Chief of Staff Valerie Sawyerr, who lampooned him for comments he made against the current leadership of the NDC and former President John Mahama, Mr. Rawlings said, “…NDC is at a cross road between those with integrity and those without. Those who lack it feel threatened by those of us who have the influence of integrity and that is what is frightening them.”

“None of these calls against us will hold. It is false they know it but they have gone to propagate it,” he added.

He was speaking to journalists on the sideline of a programme in Accra Wednesday on the role of the Council of State as part of the Accra Dialogue event.

In an epistle addressed to the NDC founder, the media-shy Sawyerr accused Mr. Rawlings and former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Martin Amidu of hypocrisy in their consistent attacks on the NDC leadership and Mahama.

“They say he booms … I say he buzzes … like an agitated mosquito … looking for his next victim. Again, he heads for other Heads of State … describing their governance as riddled with corruption. Is he trying to say that his reign was unblemished or that his twin brother’s (President Akufo-Addo) reign is unsullied? Really?

“Who born dog … in fact … who born monkey?” she quizzed in her write-up which Mr. Amidu described as “incoherent, disjointed and drunken-like.”