Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and our brothers and sisters around the world joining us on TV and via Social Media. Thank you for joining us tonight as we pay homage to a most remarkable individual –father, husband, soldier, leader, revolutionary, comrade, President, statesman, my Boss, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, first President of our Fourth Republic.
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I arrived in Accra tonight, following the suspension of my campaign in the Ashanti Region on hearing the news of the death of our party Founder and former President, Jerry John Rawlings.
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