The Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (FONKAR) found it repuGhana News Agencynt, irritating and deeply insulting, that the Vice President John Mahama would once again found it necessary to attack the dignity of Jerry John Rawlings.
FONKAR take offense to the reckless, cold-hearted and egocentric effusions by vice President John Mahama at Tein Conference in Winneba over the weekend that former President Rawlings is not doing the NDC any good by his comments. He wandered how the party and the government could trumpet its achievements if leading members continue to describe ministers and government appointees as “Greedy Bastards” and “Team B’, among others.
What is John Mahama talking about? That the government has achieved so much and that the achievements have been overshadowed by the pronouncements of Jerry John Rawlings? His comment is tantamount to foolhardiness and he must be told in no uncertain terms.
FONKAR wanders why the Vice President of the republic will display such indiscipline in a forum that was supposed to address indiscipline in the rank and file of the NDC. To suggest that President Rawlings must not criticize the administration because of politics of expediency is just unheard off.
President Rawlings made the famous ‘greedy bastards’ comment as a result of certain characters around the president who have turned the “Better Ghana Agenda” into “Better Stomach Agenda” and are surviving on their ability to facilitate access to purgatory. We expect John Mahama to have known better.
Casting insinuations and innuendoes at Jerry John Rawlings in such a manner smacks of indiscipline at the highest level.
The politics of attrition going on in both government and the party has taken a new turn and John Mahama is at the height of that. The decimation and total obliteration of the Rawlings legacy have been a long awaited dream of the likes of John Mahama. FONKAR is not unaware of the machinations going on to ridicule and discredit the former President.
For someone like John Mahama who has consistently shown gross indiscipline towards Jerry John Rawlings to lament over indiscipline in the party is just revolting. We wander what moral authority he has to preach indiscipline when he himself is indiscipline to the core.
We want to make it crystal clear to John Mahama and his likes that President Rawlings was able to hold the PNDC/NDC together for 19 years because he was mentally competent, morally upright, a strict disciplinarian and was able to stamp his personality on governance as well as reined in his undisciplined appointees as and when necessary. Can we say the same of the Mills administration? We wander.
We urge former President Jerry John Rawlings to display uncommon resilience in the face of the unwarranted provocation that has been occasioned by these unsavory politicians who are behaving like kindergarten kids fighting over lollies.
We in the FONKAR are not just going to sit down and fold our arms and groaned, moaned and lament like Jeremiah of the old Testaments while Jerry John Rawlings is consistently humiliated by nonentities he projected into fame.
We want to caution the President and his lieutenants to perish the thought of usurping the legacy of Jerry Rawlings because we are prepared to lay our lives down to resist any attempt by John Mahama and his cohorts to usurp and destroy the legacy of Jerry John Rawlings. We will stand up and speak our mind when the occasion presents itself.
John Mahama must be told that these intrigues will not promote discipline and unity in the party but will rather increase the cynicism and the antagonism. We will perish together; if we fail in our effort to grate the scabbed-wound and apply the right medication.
The dishonesty is just disgusting.
Signed
Source: Dela Coffie (Communications Director)
