Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

Yet from its inception in the Jerry Rawlings era many NDC activists have seen their party as disadvantaged by the law; symbolised by the preponderance of wealthy lawyers in the ranks of the opposition NPP...

That was followed by the prosecution and sentencing of Tsikata in June 2008 by a fast-track court for five years charged with causing loss to the state as chief executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) under President Jerry Rawlings (AC Vol 49 No 16 Presidents and lawyers)...

To implement his headline economic pledge – to create a 24-hour economy – Mahama has appointed Augustus ‘Goosie' Tanoh whose political career dates back 40 years to the era of Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings's government...

The NPP's repeated promise to voters was that it would 'never go back to the IMF'; the NDC has resorted to Bretton Woods funding seven times under all three NDC presidents of the Fourth Republic starting with Jerry Rawlings...

Both parties suspended their campaigns for a week last month after the death of former Head of State Jerry Rawlings who had led a military regime then an elected civilian regime between 1981-2000...

Chihombori's reinstatement has attracted over 69 000 signatures since 11 October and the support of Ghana's ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...

Other groupings such as the Nkrumahist bloc of small parties offer little challenge to the NPP and NDC but there are suggestions that the NDC founder and former President Jerry Rawlings is about to form a new party with disgruntled colleagues...

After Jerry John Rawlings's 1979 coup d'état he launched a farming venture and chaired Sunyani Council in Brong-Ahafo...

Leftist Augustus 'Goosie' Tanoh has rejoined the party and had some backing from former President Jerry John Rawlings but lacks a broad enough base in the party...

The other main presidential candidates are: Ivor Kobina Greenstreet Convention People's Party; Edward Nasigri Mahama People's National Convention; Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (wife of former head of state Jerry John Rawlings) National Democratic Party; and Paa Kwesi Nduom Progressive People's Party...