Rawlings must join president Mills for 2012 campaign

Rawlings must join president Mills for 2012 campaign no

matter what-Sinare

Story by: Samuel Ablordeppey

A vice chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Alhaji Said Sinare says, though the party could win the 2012 elections without

the founder of the party, it will be politically suicidal should the former

president Jerry John Rawlings fail to

join President Mills campaign for the 2012 general elections after he wins the July

congress.

He said, every true and loyal member of the party however

aggrieved or bitter he or she must as a matter of principle follow the laid

down procedures by joining the leader of the party campaign for victory in

2012.

He hinted, that he doubts if former president Rawlings will

disagree to join President Mill’s campaign, ‘’ I will hate to see the NDC win

the 2012 elections without the founder’’. But I know definitely that the

founder will join the campaign stressing that ‘’ it is better for us to have a

useless NDC government than to allow the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to come to

power on a silver platter’’. Sinare said.

The former member of parliament for the Ayawaso Central tells

Radio Gold in Accra that the performance of president Mills is commendable thus

the need to retain him than the NPP taking over power.

It will be recalled that two vice chairpersons of the NDC

former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah

resigned their positions to contest the President in the July primaries of the

party in July.

But Alhaji Said Sinare said, regardless of what happens at

the July congress he would want to see former president Rawlings supporting

President Mills, adding that ‘’ we are all one big family and I don’t think

Jerry Rawlings want to see the NDC sink because it will not be in his interest

to see the party collapse’’.

He described the internal wrangling in his party as normal,

it happened during the NPP between Nana Addo and Alan Kyeremanteng it was even

worse-it’s normal that is politics you hit, hit and counter hit but the ideals

of the party must reign supreme and all must put their hands on the wheel for a

decisive victory in 2012.

‘’ Whether defeated candidate or not, all must come on board

to support the winner for the 2012 elections. I have been around and have

tested the pulse of most of the delegates and it’s pretty obvious that

president Mills will win the July congress by a landslide.’’