News:
August 4, 2011
Ms Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, Member of Parliament for Jomoro who is aspiring to become the chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) says it is her belief that the future of the party lies in building a vibrant independent political force to provide alternative policies to both the NDC and NPP.
“It is my belief that the future of the CPP lies in building a vibrant independent political force to provide alternative policies to both the NDC and NPP”, she stressed.
Speaking to the Times in an interview in Accra, Ms Nkrumah she said it was this conviction that had motivated her to put herself forward for the leadership of the CPP to be able to reposition the party to stand on its own feet without seeking to lean on either the NDC or the NPP.
“I hope to galvanize the existing goodwill that the Nkrumaist forces enjoy throughout the country into a political force capable of winning elections to form a government. The tonic for this is to unify all the genuine Nkrumaist groups into one political force”.
She said the CPP needed a drastic change, a reformation, a revitilisation to some of its core principles that made our party great and strong in the past.
Ms. Nkrumah described as “unacceptable”, the current political situation in which only one to two per cent of the country’s population vote for the CPP during national elections.
“It is unacceptable for a party that spearheaded the nation’s independence movement and ushered modern Ghana into being”, she said.
According to her, she would galvanize the existing goodwill that the Nkrumaist forces enjoyed throughout the country into a political force capable of winning elections to form a government.
“The tonic for this is to unify all the genuine Nkrumaist groups into one political force.
I believe I represent the new leadership that will deliver this unity and set the party on the path of renewal. Together with our enormous grassroots support represented by the ordinary men and women whose wisdom, sweat and toil once built and sustained the CPP, this can and must be achieved again and that is the leadership that I seek to offer” she said.
Ms Nkrumah pointed out that the party has the task today to continue from where Nkrumah left, while remaining flexible as we adapt to changing circumstances.
Source: Ghanaian Times