Professor Ransford Gyampo, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana has stated that former President Jerry John Rawlings has been lenient with the current administration.
He said the NDC founder has been less critical of the Akufo-Addo administration than he was of the previous NDC administration.
Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ Morning Show, Prof Gyampo asserted that ever since the NPP won power, most of Jerry Rawlings’ utterances appear to favour the Akufo-Addo led administration.
“If I compare his relationship with the current Akufo-Addo government to the J.A Kufour’s era where he used to heavily criticised the government, there is a vast difference because he does not speak against Akufo-Addo government and it could well be that President Akufo-Addo is being a master politician . . . a master politician is one who is able to bring his political opponents closer to him.”The Head of European Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo
Prof Gyampo mentioned that “when you are given power, you have the right to ignore the opposition and you have the right to also work with the opposition such that they would not worry you. One of the things that J.A Kuffour used to do in his era is that even people within his party that he knew were his key competitors, he appointed them because he knew that if he did not do that they would worry him. It is just that he could not do that with Rawlings”.
“As a master politician if you are able to identify your opponent and find ways and means of keeping your opponent at bay, they will find it difficult to oppose you in public; and will censure you in secret. It is possible that Nana Akufo-Addo is doing that and that is why Rawlings is almost literally in bed with him,” he said.Source: Pulse Ghana
