The editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has stated categorically that he detest the politics of Former President Rawlings.

Mr. Baako who made this statement while delivering a lecture on the 13th Kronti ne Akwamu lecture organised by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana on the theme “Search for Accountability: Government Under the Fourth Republic” stated that though he likes the personality of the former coup leader, he detests his politics.

“My own very good friend former President Rawlings, also I have a little difficulty with. I like him personally, he is a fantastic personality, socially, but his politics I detest,” Mr Baako stated

The ace journalist known for his vast knowledge in Ghanaian political history in furtherance revealed that he does not like the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) which was founded by Former President Jerry John Rawlings.

“I’ll be dishonest if I say for instance I like the NDC or I endorse the NDC, I’ll be dishonest. Don’t take me seriously. I don’t, for good reasons, the party I mean,” he revealed to the audience

“You see, they overthrew our party (CPP) in the third Republic and then when they came, they formed three or four parties and today the CPP is in the belly of the NDC virtually. Yes, 90 percent of their constituencies that they hold are traditional CPP constituencies. It is going to take a long time to fight to regain our strength so I have a problem with NDC and then the coup d’état that brought the PNDC into being; it was a matter of conviction, matter of principle, I went to jail for that, for opposing them, I was in jail for two years, just because of the opposition to the coup.

Source: ghanaguardian.com