The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has renamed its national headquarters after its founder and late former president, Jerry John Rawlings.
The renaming of the party headquarters was done at a ceremony in Accra on Monday, to honour the legacy of Jerry Rawlings and mark what would have been the former president’s 79th birthday.
The NDC national headquarters at Adabraka in Accra is now renamed Jerry Rawlings House.
Speaking during the ceremony, President John Mahama said the late founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was deeply uncomfortable with efforts to immortalise his name and preferred to be remembered through his impact on people’s lives.
“Rawlings himself, if he were alive, would have been very uncomfortable with this ceremony we are holding, by which we seek to immortalise his name…he resisted all attempts to name significant monuments after him,” Mahama said.
“He politely declined to have the University for Development Studies named after him, even though he had given up his World Food Prize Award as seed funding to start that university. Fortunately for us today, he is in no position to object to what we are doing here to immortalise his name,” he added.
Rawlings passed away in November 2020. He led the country first as a military ruler before overseeing the transition to constitutional rule and serving as Ghana’s first President under the Fourth Republic from 1993 to 2001.