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Former President Jerry Rawlings is urging the leadership of the ruling National Democratic Congress party to unite its ranks and salvage it from “perpetual doom,” expressing hope it is not too late to do so. In a dramatic retreat from his oft-repeated threats not to join the party in its election 2012 campaigns, former President Rawlings told a gathering of his supporters, party followers and cadres that it is after all not late to win back the support of the party’s source of power – the grassroots. “Ladies and gentlemen, we find ourselves in a situation where we have become so distanced from reality, that the local structures that benefitted the NDC and accorded it the opportunity to garner public opinion at the lowest level have all dissipated as the grassroots membership have lost trust and confidence, rather opting to organize demonstrations and send petitions, many of which are ignored. “It is not too late to save the NDC from the abyss. Those who have the power and capacity to create a renewed confidence in the party have to wake up from their political slumber and remember their true beginnings,” he counseled as the crowd that filled the National Theatre in Accra to participate in a public lecture to mark the 30th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution he led, cheered.
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The lecture was under the theme; Three decades of grassroot democracy: its relevance to current political dispensation. He said “The most dangerous mistake of any political force is to forget its roots and that unfortunately is the bane of many of our political leaders today. Rather than represent the will of the people, many have chosen to represent their own individual and parochial agendas. |
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