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Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has openly wondered if Founder and Former Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings is still a member of the ruling party. To him, comments by the NDC Founder does not augur well for the ruling party. �Sometimes I just wonder�Where Mr. Rawlings does truly stand? In these 2016 elections, is he going to campaign for Nana Konadu, or he is going to campaign for an NDC candidate? Are we still going to have a situation in which Nana Akufo Addo will be paying courtesy calls on him in his house just as he did for the 2012 election? I don�t know�. �Are we going to have a situation where he will go to the Volta Region and tell the Chiefs and people there not to be afraid of being under the leadership of Nana Akufo Addo? I don�t know, I�m just wondering�, he lamented. The seasoned journalist's worry is premised on Mr Rawlings' recent remarks that the performance of the Mahama-led administration is so bad that it has made the NDC unattractive to the Ghanaian. According to him, the ruling NDC is likely to be defeated in the 2016 general elections. �They (NDC) seem to lack the sort of integrity that is required in the leadership of this party. It appears some of them have compromised themselves, some of them have been involved in things that are making it almost impossible and difficult for them to ensure that the gear changes on the situation in government�� he said. The former president further indicated in a recent interview that the Mahama led administration has failed whiles the rank and file of the NDC has lost its integrity and confidence. ��this government is certainly not going to earn us the political office in 2016. At this stage, we (NDC) are bound to lose��Just as we were bound to lose when President Mills was in office, fortunately God took him away and gave a new hope to this party and I said that at that time, the freshness of John made it possible for this party to win, this time around, he will need a rejuvenated party to stay in office,� Ex-President Rawlings said. But contributing to a panel discussion on Radio Gold's Alhaji and Alhaji Saturday, Mr Pratt doubted whether the former president still belonged to the ruling party and wondered what the NDC intends doing about the situation. �What is this family (party) going to do in 2016? It�s important for anybody in the NDC to begin to wonder�, he added.