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Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, the youngest son of Ghana�s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, says the Convention People�s Party (CPP), of which his sister, Samia Nkrumah is Chairperson, is �non-existent�. Dr. Nkrumah told XYZ Breakfast Show host Moro Awudu on Wednesday that the CPP, which his father founded decades ago, and on which platform he became Ghana�s first President, is not the CPP of today. He blamed the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of strategically cannibalising the CPP and by so doing, shredding the party into non-existence. Dr. Nkrumah, who hinted of a possible try at the Presidency in 2020 said: ��The NDC destroyed that possibility for a son of Nkrumah to be the President of this country because they destroyed the CPP platform�. According to him, �it would have been natural for a son of Nkrumah to stand on the CPP Platform� to be President but for the destruction of the Party by the NDC. Explaining how, in his opinion, the NDC �destroyed� the CPP, Dr. Nkrumah said: ��We can go into details as to how they fragmented the CPP front; how Nkrumah�s parties, NCP - referred to as Nkata at the time � were formed by people like Tsikata and so on, who were with PNDC and strongly affiliated to NDC� and so on. He says the CPP now exists only �in name but beyond that it doesn�t capture people�s imagination�.