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Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

Date of Birth: 22 June 1947
Place of Birth: Accra
Died: 12 November 2020


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Show time for the spooks

Poku's own politics are obscure: he has worked under several different regimes but went into exile after Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings organised his second coup on 31 December 1981...


Kingmakers and charlatans

Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings the NDC’s founder has kept uncharacteristically quiet giving Mills’s door-to-door campaign more credibility...


Any more business?

President John Agyekum Kufuor expressed doubts after his 2000 election victory about the terms of the deal his predecessor former President Jerry John Rawlings had agreed for a $16 mn...


Race to the top

The new Democratic Freedom Party formed by an NDC defector Obed Yao Asamoah also hopes to become a 'third force' and is said to be supported by NDC figures in the Volta and Greater Accra who want to reduce the influence of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...


Everyone's in the race

Mills was Vice-President to NDC founder Jerry John Rawlings who stepped down after two terms in 2001...


Banished ballots

Many people left the country during the 19-year rule of ex-President Jerry John Rawlings...


Anniversary boycott

Ex-President Jerry Rawlings's ally Tsatsu Tsikata former head of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation has been on trial for five years over a complicated loan guarantee amid a flurry of appeals...


Annivesaries and elections

Relations between Kufuor and his predecessor Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings remain poisonous and several officials from Rawlings’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) government (including his wife) still face trial on a host of corruption cases...


Penalty shoot-out

Atta Mills also has the backing of former military leader and president Jerry John Rawlings...


Exporting the vote

NDC founder (and PNDC leader) Jerry John Rawlings has kept uncharacteristically quiet about ROPA...


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