Rawlings To Hold Press Conference Today

Former President Rawlings is expected to hold a press conference today. It would be his first ever press conference after leaving office as (P)NDC Chairman and as President of the Republic of Ghana. This is because he never held any press conference for the local media for 19 years.

The conference which would take place at the office of the former President at Ridge in Accra would address various issues, barring any last minute hitches.

Some of the issues the former President would address include:

• Criticise the Electoral Commission for enabling the NPP to win all the recently held by-elections.
  

• Lash out at the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) for what he and his party claim are its prejudices and answer some of the allegations made by Kweku Baako Jnr, Editor in Chief of the Crusading Guide newspaper during his recent appearance before the NRC.
  

• He is also expected to call for unity within the NDC as certain key elements on the youth front have threatened to resign from the party.

Messrs Baba Jamal, the deputy General Secretary of the NDC; Haruna Iddrisu, national youth organizer and Madam Frances Essiam, national women’s organizer are threatening to call it quits if the Party’s structures are not re-aligned to make it the once formidable party that it used to be.