10 more photos drop as past presidents & Akufo-Addo pay last respect to Rawlings

10 more photos drop as past presidents & Akufo-Addo pay last respect to Rawlings

- Photos from the state funeral of JJ Rawlings keep flooding the internet

- In a recent development, former presidents of Ghana and current president, Akufo-Addo have all paid their last respect to the late former president

- Today, January 27, 2021, will be the day that JJ Rawlings would finally be buried

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More photos from the solemn state funeral held in honour of late former president of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings at the Conference Centre in Accra have been sighted.

In the recent photos, former presidents John Agyekum Kufour and John Dramani Mahama were at the foyer of the AICC to pay their last respects to ex-president Rawlings.

Former president Kufour was seen attending the ceremony in a wheelchair as he bid his good friend farewell.

More photos drop as JAK, NADAA, Mahama pay last respect to JJ Rawlings
More photos drop as JAK, NADAA, Mahama pay last respect to JJ Rawlings
Source: UGC

It would be recalled that JJ Rawlings handed over power to John Kufour in 2001 after the former's party lost the 2000 general election.

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After paying his last respect, ex-president Kufour commiserated with the bereaved family who were all at the foyer of the AICC.

Ex-president John Dramani Mahama also paid his last respect as well as spoke some words of encouragement to the family of late Rawlings.

Current president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his wife, together with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia with his wife, also went to the AICC to pay the last respect to Rawlings.

They followed this up with commiserating with former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and her children.

Still on the state funeral, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that a 52-year-old woman who claims to be called Abigail Mawutor Rawlings has said she is the daughter of the late former president of Ghana Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings.

In a new video sighted on YouTube, the mature woman spoke passionately about her being the child of the late former president.

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According to her, her mother is a Togolese who has passed away but before her death, shePtold her Rawlings was her father.

Madam Abigail Rawlings added that many of former president Rawlings's maternal relatives in their hometown know her and have accepted her into the family.

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