Ex President Rawlings on Tuesday fired another salvo at the Mills-led NDC administration accusing the government of appointing people who are not “genuinely minded, NDC spirited, NDC-hearted people and want to destroy the party in favour of something else”.
An incensed Rawlings accused the government of losing its sense of political morality and moral high-ground by monetizing everything and wondered how the party intends winning power having departed from the values that sustained its political success.
Addressing hundreds of sympathizers of the 31st December revolution during the 30th anniversary celebration of the formation of the 31st December Women’s Movement which was named after the May 15 uprising where Mr Rawlings led a group of soldiers in an abortive attempt to overthrow the Supreme Military Council on May 15, 1979, the former president indirectly described the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as "perceived enemies" whiles labeling the ruling government as a "traitor".
"How can the government in its desire to hold onto political power demean itself in such a crass manner? Can we sustain hope and strength in this depraved political atmosphere?...We have always had to fight against one ‘enemy’ or opposition. If they can behave in a civil way it will be fair to call them opposition but seeing how they rounded up and jailed innocent people and killed others can we be wrong to sometimes describe them as enemies?...This time, however, we are fighting against two enemies – one the perceived enemy and the other one the traitor. We cannot fight both at the same time and therefore one has to go," the former president said.
But Nii Lantey sharply disagreed with the party’s founder and posited that the traitors are all over the former President, feeding him with lies.
Speaking in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo Morning Show, the Operations Director at the Castle said since he believes Mr Rawlings has been fed with the wrong information, he does not begrudge him for passing such comments because.
“I don’t blame him; I blame those around him who don’t know what we stand for. They always give them (former First Family) the wrong information, feeding the former First Lady with some dubious research that she can win the election; and she believes in that… They don’t have jobs to do; that is the only thing they do to survive…” Nii Lantey said.
According to him, former President Rawlings used to get to the bottom of issues before offering his take but has now grown an itching ear for falsehood.
“… Now he has lost touch with the people because most of the information he gets are all lies. He is now depending on untruths and liars. So if he is looking for a traitor, it is not far away, he should just look around him; his office, they are there. People who are greedy and those he believes to be greedy bastards, he should look within his office. Some people want to destroy the former President’s legacy but unfortunately for us our father is blind to their maneuvers; people are leading him to destruction and he is not seeing it and that is why some of us are disturbed…,” he added.
source: peacefmonline
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