Politicians Asked To Shun Extravagant Lifestyles

A Presidential aspirant of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr. Joseph Agyapong, has admonished Ghanaian politicians to shun extravagant lifestyles and accept the values of modesty and humility in view of the current economic challenges to serve the people of Ghana.

According to him, the current labor agitations in the country were clear indication that Ghanaians were not happy with the extravagant lifestyles political leaders led at the expense of the ordinary man on the street.


Mr. Agyapong gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agnecy (GNA) on the sidelines of the Central Regional Delegates’ Congress of the CPP in Cape Coast during which new officers of the party for the region were elected.

“This attitude has gone for more than 30 years. NDC was in power for 20 years and over, eight years for the NPP, Just look at the lifestyles they all lived. Even though the civil servants are doing all the work, yet their salaries are not good, why won’t they agitate.” .

Mr Agyapong believed that until politicians shunned greed and became modest, labor agitations would continue.

He appreciated the concerns and request of members of the Ghana Medical Association, but appealed to them to consider the lives of innocent Ghanaians that were at risk, and reconsider their decision to resign and call off their strike.

He pointed out that from all indications; the NDC and the NPP had failed Ghanaians and pleaded with Ghanaians to give the CPP another opportunity in 2016 for Ghana to regain its dignified status in Africa and the World.

Mr Agyapong was optimistic to be the leader of the CPP in 2016, and said the party would live within the standards of the economy, and promised accountable governance for the people when voted into power.

Ms. Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, Chairperson of the CPP hinted that the party had welcomed a decision by some top officials of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) to begin dialogue for a possible merger.

She stated that negotiations were also far advanced between the CPP and the People’s National Convention (PNC) and that the two political parties may be fully merged into one political party in 2017.

Ms. Samia explained that the initiative to form political alliance was one of the steps to bring all Nkrumahist parties under one united party, to form a formidable force to wrestle power from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2016 to ensure the continuation of Kwame Nkrumah’s vision.

Prof. Edmund Nminyem Delle, an aspiring National Chairman, expressed worry that Ghana and Africa for that matter did not have any ideological training and self-sacrifice.