#NjenjeMediaNews gathered that the former president of Ghana has died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on Thursday morning 12th of November, 2020. The former military ruler was born on June 22, 1947.
Jerry Rawlings, a military ruler, who later joined politics, governed 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 was a flight lieutenant of the Ghanaian Air Force and 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 the coup 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 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 a presidential candidate in 2000.
#NjenjeMediaNews sends their heart felt condolences to his family, the Ghanaian nation and Africa at large.
