The main challenger is Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings wife of Jerry John Rawlings...
The launch of the FONKAR campaign on 4 May was well attended and the crowd was brought to its feet by Jerry Rawlings’s promise to make another of his ‘boom’ speeches on 4 June the anniversary of his 1979 coup d’état...
Jerry Rawlings has described these people as ‘traitors’; followers of the opposition NPP flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo are merely ‘enemies’...
Many believe FONKAR’s accusation that the Mills team has bought up local party leaders by-passing the ‘foot soldiers’ (party cadres local assembly members and party organisers) who formed the bedrock of the NDC’s electoral victories in 1992 and 1996 when Jerry Rawlings was its flagbearer...
Ex-President and party founder Jerry John Rawlings who hand-picked his then Vice-President John Atta Mills as his successor in 1999 has been leading a campaign known as ‘You take your government and I’ll take my party...
A bizarre series of fires at government buildings has led to a whispering campaign reminiscent of the spate of brutal murders before the 2000 election campaign which Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Jerry Rawlings had claimed were organised to damage the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government...
Unlike his predecessors muscular militarist Jerry John Rawlings or loftily aristocratic John Agyekum Kufuor Mills enjoys sparring with journalists...
) during the last NDC government headed by Jerry Rawlings...
His cousin the long-term National Security Advisor Captain Kojo Tsikata was once feared as an influence on the then President Jerry John Rawlings and still plays a discreet advisory role in government...
President Mills has tried to establish a leadership style distinct from the grandiosity of Kufuor and the bellicosity of his political mentor Jerry Rawlings...
Bush in 2008 and William Jefferson Clinton in 1998 - have been little more than extended photo opportunities at the tail end of the governments of John Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings...
Yet he faces friendly fire from members of his own party cheered on by his former mentor ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...
Yet despite concern about the influence of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) the new President's appointments suggest a firm grip on the economy and the desire to manage the government's day-to-day business...
