Former President Jerry John Rawlings and founding father of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC), has told the governing party that the 2016 elections will not be an easy task, whiles reminding them not to underestimate the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n
The former President made the comment at the party\u2019s national campaign launch at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”JV60TmNOXRiZ5kTNfAgNXDjAjV4jWNl9″]\u201cThe task ahead of you won\u2019t be as easy task. I will reserve what I have to say till after the elections when I will come round the country to share with you how I think we could restore the kind of strength that can take us well into the future. There are certain weaknesses that we need to deal with.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t be like the NPP – Rawlings<\/strong><\/p>\n The former President, who spoke for few minutes, also cautioned the NDC not to act like members of the opposition NPP if they want to stay in power for long.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me just give you one point. The NPP cannot be underestimated, you know it and I know it. They\u2019ve been in existence for a long time, and have been changing their names up till this day. The nature of who they are, and what they are and where they\u2019ve come from, it\u2019s something they are happy with and they will be there for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n The calculation I want to put before you is that, by virtue of who and what they are, their mannerisms, their character, will necessarily give rise to what you and I are in the NDC. In other words, by virtue of who we are; where we\u2019ve come from, how we came about into being, I keep saying, we cannot afford to fight them on their terms.\u201d<\/p>\n He admonished that; \u201cIt\u2019s important than we fight them on our terms. What are those terms? In other words, let\u2019s not mimic their behaviour. Let us reach into the principles and the values they emerged out of the circumstances that gave birth to us. And if we can hold onto those principles and those values, we will move way into the future and no one can ever defeat us. We will ride and override any obstacle as we did in the past. Mimic them as some of them are doing and we will run into problems. Let\u2019s have a clean clear and stable election. I wish you all the best, get back home in one piece, no accidents,\u201d the former President concluded.
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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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