Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, one of the sons of
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah says the late former President Jerry John Rawlings
is best remembered as “a daredevil".
According to Dr. Nkrumah, many Ghanaians do not like Rawlings’s kind because he
was too direct and loved to say the truth.
Sekou Nkrumah, in a post on his Facebook timeline wrote of JJ Rawlings:
“nothing to do with good or bad but rather to do with having it his way. He
imposed himself on the situation, refusing to accept his limitations!”
These limitations, Sekou Nkrumah indicated, made the former Ghanaian leader “a
walking contradiction in so many ways!”
“He was very charismatic, very handsome in his younger days. He was also very
ambitious, but I think the best way to describe him is that he was a daredevil
as Kweku Baako will say!”, Sekou’s post read further.
Sekou wondered if the sudden death of a great personality like JJ Rawlings will
go a long way to have any effect on the December 7 elections.
He lamented that the opposition NDC, a party JJ Rawlings founded, will
capitalize on his death to gain sympathy votes from the electorate and asked if
it will actually favour them.
“Remember in 2012, the death of President Mills gave NDC lots of sympathy
votes! So, the question now is [is] this new development going to favour the
NDC again? I guess time will tell,” he wrote.
Jerry John Rawlings died on Thursday, November 12 at the Korle-Bu Teaching
Hospital, Accra, where he was receiving treatment after a short illness. He was
73 years old.
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