Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, a former appointee of former President Jerry John Rawlings has disclosed that the military leader was not ready to leave power albeit he was a listening president.
According to him, it took a great deal of convincing to make the former president transit the country into constitutional rule in 1992.
Rawlings in an interview had admitted he did not believe in Constitutional rule.
“One thing about Rawlings was that he listens but I think because of his background as a military man even if he agrees with you, he will not tell you I agree with you,” Prof Ahwoi said.
He added, “He will create the impression that he is sticking to his position but the next day you will see that he comes around to your position, and I think that was good on his part.”
“From our dealings with him, he was not keen of letting go power. It was a great deal of convincing that we were able to transit into a constitutional rule.”
“I always give credit to late Justice D F Annan, Kojo Tsikata. I think we should give him [Rawlings] credit for handing over power”, he stressed.
Jerry John Rawlings ruled Ghana for 12 years as a military leader and eight years as civilian leader under the fourth republic.
Source: GhanaFeed.com