Former Ghanaian Head of State and President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings has called on Nigerian Presidential Aspirant to go ahead, whatever the outcome in his electoral bid because he has demonstrated youthful power and has shown that Nigeria has alternatives.
Rawlings made the statement while receiving members of the #take it back movement led by Nigerian 2019 Presidential aspirant and Activist, Omoyele Sowore at his office in Ridge, Accra, Ghana.
He said Nigeria alone commands 35 to 40% of Africa’s political power but regretted that the Nigerian leadership had so far been unable to utilize that power.
Mr. Sowore said at the meeting that he had come to the respected leader to let him know that “your next door neighbor, Nigeria is about to experience a revolution with the emergence of young leaders in 2019”.
He noted that his news website, Sahara Reporters had consistently exposed corrupt politicians but he realized that the media alone cannot change Nigeria but people who were ready to go all the way.
Responding, Rawlings said that he felt Sowore was best suited to continue his bold exposures on corruption. He went on to say the people of Nigeria couldn’t take the rot and corruption anymore when they voted for change in 2015.
“Pretty much like what’s happening in your country, people just got sick and tired and gave their vote to Buhari. It’s so unfortunate though that President Buhari’s government couldn’t fight the rot without ambushing the cost of living of the people”.
Whiles acknowledging the complexities within the Nigerian socioeconomic and geopolitical environment, he added that President Buhari’s government could have employed some intelligent flexibility; “how do you fight corruption without allowing it to affect the cost of living in the country,” he said.
He stated that African leaders don’t teach their people defiance to put leadership in check but rather they disempower them.
He advised the presidential hopeful to approach the issue of corruption with caution because Nigerians may dismiss him because “even if this clean man (Buhari) couldn’t fight corruption, what about him?”.
At the meeting, the former President advised Sowore to carefully think about his ambition adding that it was going to be difficult not because of money politics but because some Africans tend to sometimes fall in love with their oppressors.

rawlings has no say in our polity.meeting him,is like running to a blind man for directions.

[b]Lalasticlala and mynd44 ,Why is this not on FP
A president of a country like Ghana endorsed a young candidate like Sowore and you decided to ignore it[b\]