EX GHANA PRESIDENT JERRY RAWLINGS DIED, NOVEMBER 12, 2020 AT KORLE-BU ACCRA.
EX GHANA PRESIDENT JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS
A former Ghana President, Jerry Rawlings has died from complications arising from a certain ailment. Rawlings died at korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, having been on admission for about a week now for an undisclosed illness and passed on in the early hours of Thursday, November 12, 2020.
He was a military ruler, who later joined politics and ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001. He led a Military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.
Jerry Rawlings of Ghana
A flight lieutenant of the Ghanaian Air Force, Rawlings first staged Military coup as a young revolutionary on May 15, 1979, five weeks before scheduled elections to return the country to civilian rule. When it failed, he was imprisoned, publicly court-martialed and sentenced to death.
After initially handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December, 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). He then resigned from the Military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first President of the Fourth Republic.
He was re-elected in 1995 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit according to the Ghanaian constitution, Rawlings endorsed his Vice-President John Atta Mills as Presidential candidate in 2000.
Jerry Rawlings, was born on June 22, 1947. Months ago on Monday, June 22, the former president marked his 73rd birthday, and as part of the celebrations, he reached out to the less privileged in society.
Also, on Wednesday, September 9, his mother, Victoria Agbotui, turned 101. To mark her 101st birthday, Rawlings and his 71-year-old wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, joined in adorable photoshoots.
