BREAKING: Jerry Rawlings, Former Ghanaian President Is Dead

Former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings is dead.

He died on Thursday afternoon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

It is reported that the first President of Ghana’s 4th Republic died after contracting coronavirus.

He was in intensive care before giving up.

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.

When it 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.

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Eko Hot Blog gathered that 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.

Rawlings was born on June 22, 1947 (aged 73).

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