I'M NOT AGAINST MILLS, MAHAMA PAIR — RAWLINGS (PAGE 13)

FORMER President Flt Lt. J.J. Rawlings has debunked allegations that he is not ready to join the Atta Mills campaign team.
He has, therefore, given the assurance that he will lend his support to the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. J.E.A. Mills and his running mate, Mr John Dramani Mahama, in their campaign to wrest political power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming December elections.
According to the founder of the NDC, it was only Prof. Mills and Mr Mahama who could salvage the already shattered economy of Ghana when the NDC was voted to administer the country, come December 7, 2008.
Addressing separate rallies in the Brong Ahafo Region, where he decided to join the campaign programme of the NDC, the former President made it clear that he was poised to vigorously campaign alongside the party’s flag bearer to enable the NDC achieve its aim of removing the NPP from power.
At the palace of the Omanhene of the Sunyani Traditional Area, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, Flt.Lt. Rawlings explained that the three of them had decided to campaign in different directions of the country, and that in November, he, Prof. Mills and Mr Mahama would mount the same platform to intensify their campaign.
He advised supporters of the NDC to be very vigilant during the December elections in order not to allow the NPP to do their own thing and eventually clinch another victory, which he said, would then spell the doom of the economy.
Tracing the political history of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Rawlings said his decision to embark on the 1981 revolution was as a result of the massive corruption that had eaten into the fabric of the economy, pointing out that under the NPP government, such a social canker still existed and, therefore, appealed to Ghanaians to vote overwhelmingly for Prof. Mills to change the future of the economy.
At Berekum, J.J., as he is affectionately called, received a rousing welcome and paid a courtesy call on the traditional authorities and leaders of the Zongo community, where he pointed out that Ghana was not the bona fide property of any group of people, and that everyone should feel a part of the system.
He, therefore, urged the Zongo people to turn up in their numbers on the election day to vote massively for the NDC to assume the reigns of governance and turn the economy around.
Flt. Lt. Rawlings had earlier toured Sankore, Gambia, Amaasu, Kyeremasu, Nsoatre and Dormaa Ahenkro.

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