RESIGN FROM NDC, GENERAL SECRETARY TELLS JUNE 4TH ABSENTEES

The Ashanti Regional General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Joseph Yammin has called on party bigwigs and members who undermine the ideologies of the June 4th Revolution in 1979 to bow down their heads in shame and resign from the party with immediate effect.
Mr. Yammin made this call at a massive rally at the Kumasi Golden Jubilee Park to climax the 32nd commemoration of the Jerry John Rawlings led June 4th uprising which toppled General Akuffo’s Supreme Military Council II in 1979. The well attended rally in the Ashanti Regional was graced by the founder of the party and former president of the country Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who is also gunning to become the presidential candidate of the party come July 8th. Though the gathering drew hundreds of party faithfuls from different parts of the country to the park, conspicuous and notable absentees at the rally included the constitutional leader of the party and president of the country, His Excellency J.E.A. Mills, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Agyemang Prempeh and other party gurus prompting Mr Yammin who served as the moderator of the event to make this call. ‘NDC can’t be NDC without June 4th’ hence all true party members who fail to recognise the importance of the ideologies of the revolution and the day must bow down their heads in shame and resign from the party’ he said. ‘I therefore expect to see many people resigning from the party!’ he stressed.
In the same vein, Mr. Henry Oware, another speaker at the rally, a staunch member of Movement for Konadu 2012 also condemned the absence of President Mills and other executive members at the rally. Mr, Oware recalled that ‘in 2004, the then candidate Mills missed a similar occasion yet he delegated Rojo Mettle Nunoo, the current Deputy Minister of Health to represent him’ hence saw no reason why the Presidency neither present nor was represented at this year’s function. He again noted that the revolution is part and parcel of the NDC since the history of the party can’t be written without the uprising.
Article 51 of the NDC Constitution recognizes of the June 4th uprising which is also dubbed as ‘accountability day’ and as such commemorated annually. This year’s commemoration was under the theme Unity in Diversity, Our Strength’. The last time the remembrance was held in Kumasi was in 2008.