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Former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has detailed one incident at Afiadenyigba between Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Ernestina Naadu Mills, former first and second lady respectively, which Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi has stated in his book Working with Rawlings that, it was the main reason Rawlings fell out with his vice president Prof. J.E. Atta-Mills. Prof Kwamena Ahwoi wrote that ...

Former President JJ Rawlings has accused Professor Kwamena Ahwoi of scheming to take over the NDC if former President John Mahama losses the December polls. According to him, the timing of the launch of Professor Ahwoi’s controversial book – Working with Rawlings – is deliberate and not wrong as has been suggested by many. The book catalogues the academician’s accounts ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been described by the Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo as a master politician who has been able to keep his opponents close by and not at arm’s length. He based his comment on the fact that since the inception of Akufo-Addo government in 2016, former President Jerry ...

Former Local Government Minister under the Jerry John Rawlings administration, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi has recounted how he and some advisers in the then government threatened the former President to put an end to the reckless execution or risk losing them. Rawlings’ administration prior to the introduction of Democracy according to history saw a number of individuals being executed for crimes ...

A former PNDC/NDC appointee and local government expert, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, has said that the former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, was always playing with his toy planes during Cabinet meetings. In his Working with Rawlings book, the former Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and a close ally of John Dramani Mahama has intimated that whilst serious ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure that no eligible voter is disenfranchised in the upcoming polls. According to him, “The sanctity of the right of choice is not a matter we can compromise with. That sanctity must be preserved at all cost and as we inch towards November let us ensure that ...

The rift between former President Jerry John Rawlings and his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor seem to always have an interesting way of reigniting after several years of dormancy. The two former presidents have been at loggerheads thereby causing Ghanaians to wonder as to what really transpired between them. Well, this year, the simmering tension between the two former presidents erupted ...