{"id":8130,"date":"2018-06-04T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2018-06-05T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T10:19:40","slug":"ndc-turning-into-npp-now-too-elitist-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=8130","title":{"rendered":"NDC turning into NPP, now too elitist \u2013 Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8131\" src=\"http:\/\/kumasionlinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rawlings-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rawlings-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rawlings-1-410x268.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Rawlings-1-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Democratic Congress (NDC) founder, Jerry John Rawlings continues to worry that his party has lost its identity.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the\u00a039th-anniversary durbar to mark the June 4 uprising, that it now resembled an older incarnation of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party has almost become a clone of what the other side used to be. Elitism and gross display of affluence have almost engulfed us and as I stated in 2017, we are still at the crossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings said persons within the NDC were now distorting the essence of the party he founded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we have consistently distorted the history of June 4 and 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0December mainly for parochial reasons\u2026 a great deal of the distortion of facts concerning the history that eventually gave birth to our party the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has come from our own, from within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said persons with \u201cdeeply malicious motives within our party have over the past 12 years especially, consistently spewed falsehood about our own history and attempted to downplay the story of June 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings also said the persons, whom he declined to name, \u201chave shamelessly disassociated themselves from our history in a bid to create the impression that it is a blot on the image of the party.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIronically the party that was seen as elitist and detached from the grassroots rather associated itself with the grassroots to win the last elections while we chose the elitist route and lost miserably.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He described this as \u201csuicidal\u201d and the cause of the NDC\u2019s woes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identity crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NDC suffered the worst election defeat from an incumbency position in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rawlings has consistently blamed this loss on the party\u2019s identity crisis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-407937 disappear mom_appear\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rawlings-and-and-desoso-at-june-4-revolution-2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rawlings-and-and-desoso-at-june-4-revolution-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rawlings-and-and-desoso-at-june-4-revolution-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rawlings-and-and-desoso-at-june-4-revolution-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rawlings-and-and-desoso-at-june-4-revolution-2-765x510.jpg 765w\" alt=\"Jerry John Rawlings\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry John Rawlings giving his speech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, he called on his party\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2018\/05\/12\/re-embrace-core-values-to-win-in-2020-polls-rawlings-to-ndc\/\">to embrace the politics of conscience<\/a><\/strong>, truth and the power of conviction as it seeks to return to power in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0the party\u2019s failure to apply its values resulted in the 2016 election defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The strength of the NDC, the former President, said, lay in attaining political power through the power of the people, not the power of the affluent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Party Overhaul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the last June 4 commemoration, in 2017, Mr.\u00a0Rawlings called for a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/04\/rawlings-calls-for-complete-overhaul-of-ndc\/\">complete overhaul<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of his party.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this is the only way the party could come back strong for the next election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He said there was a need for new leaders with integrity to lead the party which he claimed lost \u201cdisgracefully\u201d in the December 7, 2016 general election because of greed, corruption and \u201cbetrayal of the values of June 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Citinewsroom.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Democratic Congress (NDC) founder, Jerry John Rawlings continues to worry that his party has lost its identity. 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