The seeming unhealthy relationship between former President Jerry John Rawlings and President Prof. John Atta Mills has been attributed to the seed of disunity allegedly sowed by some politicians.
Mr. P. E. Ofosu, a senior cadre and former NDC constituency secretary of Bosomtwe, who described the situations as unfortunate, said it was matter of blackmail.
Addressing party members of the Esreso High Tension branch of the NDC in Kumasi on Sunday, Mr. Ofosu, a former Organising Assistant of the Committee for Defence of the Revolution (CDR), said the relationship between the two gentlemen was very cordial. According to him, as Founder of the party, Mr. Rawlings could not jeopardise the fortunes of the party which he founded, by engaging in hostilities with the sitting President.
The Senior Cadre said, but for the efforts of the former President, the NDC could not have wrestled power from a ruling party.
Mr. Ofosu said it was unthinkable for the two great men of the party to have plunged the party into chaos at this time of the party’s efforts to consolidate power. “It is not true that President Mills is not on talking terms with Mr. Rawlings,” he told the party following at the meeting, and disabused their minds of the claim in certain quarters that Mr. Rawlings was trying to unseat President Mills.
“These are diabolical acts by detractors of the NDC,” the former CDR man said, and advised party members to close their ranks to ward off tricks and attempts by the opposition to infiltrate them.
Mr. Ofosu said the NDC was poised to retain power, because it was stronger than before, and called for a concerted effort by all party members at all levels, to render the propaganda machinery of the NPP ineffective.
He has therefore called on party members to rally solidly behind President Atta Mills, to enable him execute his ‘Better Ghana’ agenda, intended to improve the lot of Ghanaians. On job creation, Mr. Ofosu noted that the government was on course, and that the stabilisation of the cedi against the major currencies, was a positive sign of economic recovery.
