Former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings, has been pronounced dead with reports alleging that he may have died from COVID-19 related complications a week after being admitted into Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana.
The former president was elected into government in the 1996 and stayed in office for two terms, ending his democratic administration in 2001. It could be recalled that Rawlings was also a former military personnel, ruling in a military regime from 1981 until Ghana returned to civilian rule in 1992.
The former flight lieutenant of the Ghanaian Airforce led an unsuccessful coup against the ruling military government on 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. 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).
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Rawlings became the first President of the Fourth Republic in 1992 after he had resigned from the military and founded the National Democratic Congress(NDC).
After the end of his second term in 2001, the then president Rawlings endorsed his vice-president John Atta Mills as presidential candidate in 2000 who eventually lost to his compatriot John Kufuor.
Former President Jerry’s death came two months after that of his mother, Victoria Agbotui, who died on 24 September 2020.
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