Manasseh Azuri Awuni one of Ghana’s Investigative Journalist is
questioning why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is fighting over the
funeral of its founder when it fell out with him long before his death.
According to him, Mr. Jerry John Rawlings was closer
to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo than his own party which he founded.
“Why fight over the funeral of a man who fell out
with your party long before his death? He was closer to Akufo-Addo than you”,
he asked in a Facebook post sighted by MyNewsGh.com.
He added “If you couldn’t make
peace with him, you cannot make peace with his dead body. Move on. He deserves
a state, not a party, burial. Let’s show love to people when they are alive,
not when they are dead and cannot see, feel or appreciate our love”
The opposition NDC is angry President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo appears to have hijacked the funeral of their founder without
their acknowledgment.
General Secretary on Accra-based radio station said
“We were sorely disappointed that the President of the Republic, even in
issuing a statement of condolence, refused or failed to recognise the fact that
President Rawlings was the founder of the NDC”.
“It is against all the different practices we have
been engaged in, in the past, as far as the death of prominent members of the
two political parties are concerned,” he said.
“The President has refused to recognise that the man belongs
to NDC, and he is the founder of NDC”, he argued, adding: “Everything about
this funeral, so far, depicts an attempt by an opponent to hijack the funeral
of the founding father of our political party, and we don’t think the funeral
of our party founder ought to be organised somewhere, and we get invited
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