BREAKING: Ex-Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings Is Dead
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Nov 12, 2020
AFNEWS gathered that the ex-president died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on Thursday morning.
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A military ruler, who later joined politics, Rawlings 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.
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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.
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When it failed, he was imprisoned, publicly court-martialed and sentenced to death.
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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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He then resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first president of the Fourth Republic.
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He was re-elected in 1996 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.
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Hw was born on June 22, 1947.
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— Thompson Nsisongabasi