A former national chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Obed Asamoah has reiterated his stance that former President Jerry John Rawlings was not the founder of the NDC.
According to him, at the time of filing for the registration of the NDC in 1992, the former President was still serving in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and could not have represented any district as a founder member.
In a radio interview with Joy FM Wednesday evening, Dr Asamoah who praised former deputy chief of staff, Dr Valerie Sawyerr for taking on Mr Rawlings in the Ntomtom Nwansena article said after the party was set up a clause was inserted in the constitution of the party to recognize his contribution to the ideals upon which the party was set up.
“I [Asamoah] dealt with the application of the NDC to the Electoral Commission for registration. The law at the time and still I think the laws are the same that you must have founders from the different districts, and at that time I think you had to have at least one from each district to sign the papers and I can show you the duplicate of the papers, they are here right now because I dealt with that whole process, and President Rawlings’ name is not on that list.
“Now the reason he wasn’t on the list is that at that time by a law which the PNDC itself passed and which he had signed, if you were an active member of the military you couldn’t be a founder of a party and he didn’t resign from the military until about just a few weeks before the elections of 1992. From that point of view he is certainly not a founder but when we set up the party we realized the need to recognize his contribution to the whole idea,” Dr Asamoah said in the radio interview.
Source: Daily Graphic
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The NDC was not "FOUNDED". Please be careful about your use of foreign words that you may not understand properly. When something is said to have been "founded", the word connotes the meaning of something that was once "lost". The National Democratic Congress, NDC, was "crafted" or "CREATED" or "formed" out of the (P)NDC. Just like the creation of the Earth, God spoke to others to "Let There Be .... and it was so". JJ spoke to Obed and others to "let there be ..." and the NDC was created out of the PNDC. Any questions? Ask God for answers. Ask JJ himself.
OH SO SO PEACE IN THE PARTY INDEED. Y SAYING ALL THESE NOW ALL BECOS HE TALKED ABOUT CORRUPTION. HOW BOLD WERE U THOSE TIMES TO SAY THESE IN HIS FACE BECOS U PEOPLE WERE ENJOYING THE LOOT. LOL. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE U PEOPLE NOT REFERRED TO HIM AS THE FOUNDER OF THE PARTY AN NOW HIS NAME IS NOT ON WHICH LIST AJEEI.. WAS THE SHEET MISSING THAT UOR U JUST REFUSED TO REFER TO LET HIM KNOW AND U JOINED THE WAGON BY CALLING HIM FOUNDER. AMM.............HM
The fear of Rawlings led his appointees to cultivate the culture of slience in the 80s. Today, the dzata bi has grown to be a monster and is eating NDC up and claiming ownership of everything therein. What is Obed the octogenarian ***barred word*** talking about? The man did nothing but you crafted something in your party constitution to satisfy him. You did same in the National constitution by inserting the indemnity clause. Today others are taking advantage but you can't do anything about it. The NDC will collapse before all of you including Rawlings and then you will see how your IDIOCY and SYCOPHANCY has led you. Let Ghana have some peace.
If technically JJ Rawlings is not the founder of the NDC party ; who are the people who founded the party and why is JJ Rawlings portrayed as the founder when the man is not ; why does not Obed Asamoah provide a copy of the signatures ; the truth is that the NDC party was founded out of the PNDC military regime of which the fraudester and liar JJ Rawlings was the leader and part from the PNDC days;this Obed Asamoah is not telling the truth ; the party was set up by a cabal of the Ahwoi brothers ; the Tsikata siblings ; Ndebure; ET Mensah ; Miss Aryee; Obed Asamoah ; Amwoonor Williams and others in the PNDC ; JJ Rawlings has not got that political brains and not very intelligent everybody in the PNDC knew that because those who were cleaver used him to settle old scores like Kodzo Tsikata who master minded the death of the three judges ;JJ Rawlings hated democracy and did not want to give up power but was forced to go civilian and introduce democracy by the US; the man played a piviotal role in setting up the NDC party which Obed Asamoah and others were like cowards and were scared of JJ Rawlings ; these people knew JJ Rawlings was a KROOK and a thiff but they all kept quiet and allowed him to lure ;accountability ; Probity ; transparency on them a flawed concept which they all knew was flawed an a complete FRAUD ; they knew JJ Rawlings was engaged in many unsavoury activity including murder but they kept quiet ; today a few in the party including Valarie Sawywer have decided to call the bluff of JJ Rawlings because the man is fraudester and thiff like Woyome ; the lady knows the sectrets of JJ Rawlings and knows how incompetent this kriminal is .
papa j the ceremonial founder of NDC!!papa j in deep waters,soon his corrupt wife will join him down there in d gutters!!!
DR. Obed Asamoah was an appointee of Jerry Rawlings at that time and therefore carried out the assignments of his employer. He therefore was assigned to do all that he is saying he did. Because Rawlings founded his NDC, no one competed with him for the flag bearer position of the party in 1992 and 1996 and in fact no one coiuld. He also handpicked President Mills as the party's flag bearer for the 2000 election and campaigned seriously for him. This made Dr. Asamoah unhappy and resulted in his departure from the NDC.