News:
September 9, 2011
Certain senior members of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) have thrown their weight behind the candidature of the Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Samia Nkrumah who is contesting for the chairmanship position of the party.
The CPP goes to congress this weekend to elect national executives to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years.
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, Prof. Francis Nkrumah, Prof. E.A Afari, Prof. Fred Binka, Prof. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah and Prof Ama Ohene in a statement urged party delegates to vote massively for Samia Nkrumah to revive, revitalise and also rejuvenate the party.
It stated that the party shall work for a united Nkrumaist family, bringing back into the fold splinter groups, the many who have sat on the fence waiting for the revivalism, the many who were young pioneers, workers’ brigade and of the other affiliate organizations and yet still, the many who did not return to the fold after the failed alliances in the past.
The statement said, the decision to support Samia Nkrumah’s bid is to ensure that a fresh, bold and imaginative leader is handed the mantle to lead and transform the party.
Samia Nkrumah who is the CPP’s lone MP, faces strong challenge in the person of CPP big shots including incumbent Ladi Nylander, Edmund Delle and Araba Bentsi – Enchill who are formidable and have been in CPP politics for decades.
She is however hopeful that delegates will at the end of the day elect her for a youthful and dynamic leadership that will ensure the CPP makes inroads in the upcoming 2012 elections.
Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh