The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to immortalize the legacy of its founder, the late former President Jerry John Rawlings, through a set of landmark proposals aimed at reinforcing the party’s roots and historical values.
The proposals, approved by the party’s Functional Executive Committee (FEC) and awaiting endorsement from the National Executive Committee (NEC), include renaming the party’s national headquarters as “Jerry Rawlings House,” amending the party constitution to officially recognize June 22—Rawlings’ birthday—as a significant party day, and designating the entire month of June as “NDC Month.”
These initiatives were unveiled by the NDC’s National Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, during the party’s 46th anniversary commemoration of the June 4 uprising held at Agormanya Lasi Park in the Eastern Region’s Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.
“We would, as a party, amend our constitution to include the birthday of our founding father as one of the significant days for the party. That is June 22. Beyond that, moves are underway to rename the party headquarters as Jerry Rawlings’ house because this is a practice all over the world.
Party headquarters are named after the founders of those parties, and Ghana cannot be an exception. So we will begin all the processes that are necessary to secure all the approvals within the party, so that the national headquarters becomes Rawlings House,”
– Johnson Asiedu Nketiah
He also called for the restoration of Revolutionary Square—an historic public space near Jubilee House—highlighting its symbolic value and urging its preservation for future generations.
“Please establish a committee, a planning committee, to advise as to how we can get the Revolutionary Square back to its original status. If you need to contact museums and the monument board, whatever you need to pave the way for us to rehabilitate the Revolutionary Square, it has to be done. It doesn’t mean it is a monument, and it teaches our youth a lesson,”
– Johnson Asiedu Nketiah
The June 4 uprising of 1979, which catapulted Rawlings to national prominence, remains one of Ghana’s most pivotal political events.
The NDC sees the annual commemoration as a reaffirmation of its foundational values of accountability, transparency, and public service.
With these latest proposals, the party is taking deliberate steps to institutionalize Rawlings’ legacy, not only within the party structure but also in the broader narrative of Ghana’s political history.
