President John Agyekum Kufuor has joined other local and international diplomats to mourn J.J Rawlings who died last Thursday.
According to the former President who did not mince words that he didn’t agree with late Papa J on most of his ideologies, history would give the NDC founder a “balanced place in the annals of our nation”.
In a statement, he revealed that he and his wife are deeply saddened by the passing of Mr Rawlings which came as a surprise to his entire family.
A part of a press statement he released on the death of late Rawlings reads;
President Rawlings was the longest-serving Head of State since our nation’s independence in 1957, and even though it wasn’t always, he and I agreed on many matters of state, I felt that he was trying to do the best he knew and could under his peculiar circumstances,” Mr Kufuor stated.
In this regard, whatever doubts his commitment to democratic rule became attenuated and earned him a legacy of contributing to the sustenance of democratic governance of our country till his demise…
Source: Gossips24.com
