Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

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...

In 1995 reforming Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey stormed out of President Jerry John Rawlings' National Democratic Congress (NDC) government after he was overruled on a plan for an spending splurge to win the 1996 elections...

For older Ghanaians this mix of IMF deals and power cuts is a reminder of the early 1980s when Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings and his acolytes struggled to turn around the economy after a decade of inept and corrupt military regimes...