The National Youth Organizer of the Convention People’s party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh, has stated that former President Jerry John Rawlings did not perform any better than President Mills. He said members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who are now in control of state affairs are very much aware of this fact and would not accept that he [Rawlings] dictates to President Mills on how he should manage the country. This situation, Mr Bomfeh claims, has accounted for the simmering tension between the two sides in the NDC. Claims that the NDC founder JJ Rawlings and party leader President Mills are not on good terms were confirmed when the former, in a statement he wrote to the media, stated he had a problem with the President whom he accused of presiding over corrupt deeds and failing to punish corrupt past officials, situations he said were contributing to the institutionalization of corruption. After his comments, some foot soldiers of the NDC who are sympathetic towards the Rawlingses, began posting campaign bills of Mrs Konadu Agyeman Rawlings in parts of the country with a call on her to contest President Mills for the party’s mandate to contest the 2012 national presidential election. Meanwhile, some political commentators have traced the foot soldiers’ behaviour to the orchestrations of the Rawlingses. They claim it is an attempt by them to create panic within the government and eventually boot out Mills for perceived non-performance. But Mr Bomfeh says members of the Mills government would not accept that he is replaced with Mrs Rawlings because they know the Rawlingses did not perform any better than Mills is doing. He was speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme Tuesday. The CPP national youth organizer further explained in an interview with myjoyonline.com that during the 19-year reign of former President Rawlings, the level of human rights violations and murder was unprecedented, along with the destruction and sale of state enterprises which resulted in mass unemployment. He also accused the former president of toying with the country’s educational system with the 'unnecessary educational reforms' he introduced in 1986 which, according to Mr Bomfeh, has resulted in the problems confronting education in Ghana. Mr Kwabena Bomfeh emphasised that the failures of the Mills administration is scaring the Rawlingses and their cronies and that is why they “are strategically placing Nana Konadu as the only person who can take the party and eventually lead it into victory since they have kept the party all this while…” He believes strongly that the struggle in the NDC is not about the soul of the party “but a search for how to share whatever they have accumulated from government operations today.” “But I can assure you [that] within the NDC, Nana Konadu, nobody should joke with her, she is a pillar and so far the trick (campaign) that she has pulled is working…” Mr Bomfeh added. Story by Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com/Ghana