A central committee member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Prince Ahiadzro, has said the nation needs the CPP touch or Nkrumaism to survive.
He said though the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had done their best, it was not enough to turn around the fortunes of the economy.
He, therefore, appealed to the Ghanaian electorate to not write off the CPP because come 2016, the party would reassert itself in the governance of the nation.
Mr Ahiadzro, who is considering running for the position of the First National Vice Chairman of the party, said Ghanaians were really suffering and it was only the CPP that was capable of redeeming the nation.
Nkrumaists need unity
Speaking to the Daily Graphic on the sideline of the regional conference of the party in Ho last Saturday, he stressed that all Nkrumaist parties needed unity to make an impact.
Mr Ahiadzro, who is also the shadow minister of the party for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, noted that the recent price increases for fuel, water and electricity were very harsh, particularly against the backdrop that the Electricity Company of Ghana was to be privatised.
He argued that if it was possible to increase electricity tariffs so high without privatisation, then there was no need to engage an independent operator because the proposed tariffs was setting a favourable stage for making undue profit to the detriment of the people.
Rebuilt CPP
The Director of Elections and Spokesperson for Youth and Sports for the party, Mr Kwabena Bomfeh (jnr), aka Kabila, has declared that only a rebuilt CPP can transform the nation.
He explained that a rebuilt CPP was one which could amicably contain all the fragments and entities of the Nkrumaist tradition.
According to him, the nation had suffered for the past 30 years under the same paradigm of P/NDC and NPP, with the prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions that had led to the exploitation of natural resources and wealth at the expense of the people.
He said it had also led to the distortions in the educational system, industries collapsing and cumulatively causing a high rate of joblessness and also heightening insecurity among the youth.
Kabila, who is also aspiring to become the General Secretary of the party, restated that what Ghana needed was a rebuilt CPP that understood the core challenges facing the nation and was capable of proffering, as well as applying real lasting solutions to socio-economic difficulties.
He maintained that the CPP was the only party that had been there for the nation in her greatest time of need when she broke away from the yoke of colonialism in 1957, adding that when the military had run the economy and the system into disarray, it was the CPP, under the banner of the Peoples National Party (PNP), that offered Ghana a respite.
“Today, as there seems to be no hope under the continuous leadership of the NDC-led NPP/NDC paradigm on the same neo-liberal path, Ghana has only the CPP to count on”, he stated.
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