News Rain Nigeria gathered that the former Ghanian President was reported to have died this morning, Thursday, 12th November 2020, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, the Capital City of Ghana.
A source who disclosed the passage of the former President revealed that he died two weeks after he buried his mother from complications of COVID-19.
BREAKING: Jerry Rawlings, Ex-Ghanaian President, Dies From COVID-19
Jerry Rawlings was born on June 22, 1947, he is a military ruler, but later joined politics, and ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001.
Rawlings led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.
Until his death, Jerry Rawlings was a flight lieutenant of the Ghanaian Air Force, he staged the 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.
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.
