CPP WITHDRAWS CANDIDATE FOR TALENSI BYE-ELECTION

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The National Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party, CPP, Samia Yaba Nkrumah, has announced the withdrawal of the party’s candidate for the upcoming Parliamentary bye-election in the Talensi Constituency in the Upper East region scheduled for the 7th of next month. 

Instead, the CPP has thrown its support behind the candidate being put forward by the People’s National Convention, PNC and has assured of fully campaigning for that candidate to boost his chances of winning the Talensi seat for the Nkrumahist parties. 

Madam Samia Nkrumah announced this in Kumasi during the Ashanti Regional Delegates Congress of the CPP. About 445 delegates converged at the GNAT Hall in Kumasi to elect nine members to reconstitute the Ashanti Regional Executive Committee of the CPP ahead of the completion of the CPP/PNC unity agenda. 

At the congress were almost all the members of the National Executive Committee of the CPP as  well as a former National Chairman of the party, Professor Edmund Delle, who all spoke passionately in favour of a merger of the two Nkrumahist parties.

 Madam Samia Nkrumah disclosed also that the CPP will convene a National Executives Meeting to consider proposals put forward by the PNC towards unifying the two Nkrumahist parties ahead of next year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections. 

The consideration of the proposal will primarily seek to formalize the suggestions which the CPP is in agreement with. 

The only daughter of Ghana’s first President officially announced her decision to contest for the standard bearer slot of the unified CPP/PNC party for next year’s Presidential elections. 

She however emphasized that a merger of the Nkrumahist parties will in no way compromise the principles of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the original CPP and that the eventual united party will only seek to advance the unfinished agenda of the CPP government. 

She disclosed again that next year will be a special year not just for the CPP and Nkrumahist political parties, but importantly, as 2016 will mark exactly 50 years when the Nkrumah government was wickedly over thrown. 

Therefore, a befitting commemoration of this occasion, she noted, will be a conclusive merger of the CPP and PNC who link their principles and ideology to the leader of the CPP government. 

The General Secretary of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, also announced his decision to contest for the National Chairmanship of the PNC party. 

Nonetheless, Mr. Mornah stressed, that he is ever ready to forgo that interest to pave the way for a conclusive merger of CPP and PNC. 

The merger, according to him, must take precedence of all personal and parochial interest to ensure that the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah next year. 

Mr. Mornah therefore impressed upon all well meaning members of the two political parties to take the opportunity prevailing now to finalize the much talked about unity agenda that will as well assure the parties of enhanced chances in next year’s elections.

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