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“I’ll soon deal with ‘callous agenda’ from Kwamena Ahwoi,” says Rawlings

Jerry Rawlings says he finds it tedious to have to resort to self-defence after all the sacrifices he has made for the National Democratic Congress

Ex-president Jerry John Rawlings has vowed to shame Professor Kwamena Ahwoi over what he describes as a “callous agenda” against him (Rawlings).

The former president’s reaction was in response to allegations made by Professor Ahwoi in his book Working With Rawlings.

Rawlings said Professor Ahwoi is one of a group of people who are “desperately seeking control of the NDC party” by vile means. According to him, he finds it tedious to have to defend himself after everything he has given to the National Democratic Congress.

Agenda of bile

“Much as I find it tiring and tedious to be engaging in self-defence when I have given my all, all these years, I will soon deal with the callous agenda of bile by the likes of Kwamena Ahwoi, who are desperately seeking control of the NDC party,” Rawlings wrote on Facebook.

“The NDC could, should and has survived on the authority of the word but if care is not taken, it will collapse and drown as has been happening, on the word of those in authority,” he said.

In Working With Rawlings, Professor Ahwoi opens up about certain things that Rawlings did before, during and after his term as president.

In pages 198 to 209, he describes an incident during an NDC congress involving the former president and Bede Ziedeng, who was a member of the NDC’s elections committee at the time.

He recalled an incident in which, he alleges, Rawlings squeezed Bede’s testicles until he passed out.

Fainting fit

“On the congress day, Bede and the other party members formed a human chain on the two sides of the entrance to the Congress Hall to provide a kind of protection to the VVIPs as they entered,” Professor Ahwoi writes in the book.

“As Bede tells it, when Rawlings and his entourage got to the entrance and the crowd surged forward to acknowledge their hero, Rawlings got hold of his testicles and squeezed them hard, so hard that he believes he fainted.

“When he recovered, he was outside the congress hall and people were fanning him.”

Atta Mills nearly resigned in 2010

In the book, Professor Ahwoi also recounts how the late John Evans Atta Mills nearly resigned just two years in to his tenure as president.

He alleges that Mills was fed up with attacks from Rawlings and decided voluntarily to resign. The former local government minister said the president finally rescinded his decision after the intervention of some NDC stalwarts.

“There was one particular incident which nearly caused President Mills … to resign. In fact, he resigned. The only thing that saved this country was that he called to tell me that he was resigning,” Professor Ahwoi said on Citi TV.

“So we talked about four hours which ran into 12:00 am and we managed to convince him to stay because we were taking certain corrective measures,” Ahwoi writes.

“We were successful in those measures and as a result, he stayed. Otherwise, he was going to resign on an account of the way Jerry Rawlings was treating him.”

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