CPP Doors Still Open

Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP), has said negotiations are not closed to the People's National Convention (PNC) to co-operate to make the CPP family a formidable force to reckon with.

"Our doors are still open for our brothers in the PNC to join the CPP family so that we shall make the required impact in the country."

Mr. Atutiga was briefing newsmen at the commencement of a tour of the 12 constituencies in the Upper East Region.

His tour is to enable him to re-orient party members on how to conduct constituency elections and submission of names of officers-elect to the party headquarters in Accra for the national congress slated for September.

He urged CPP followers, who for various reasons joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to come back.

The Secretary expressed optimism that the CPP would make an impact in the next election. "With the vigorous grassroots re-organization, we will capture not less than 13 of the 43 seats in the three northern regions."

Commenting on who would be the presidential candidate of the party, he said it was too early to come out with names adding that some members, including those in the Diaspora had shown interest to contest the position but declined to mention names.

At around the same time Mr. Atutiga was making his appeal to the PNC last week, the PNC leader, Dr. Mahama was announcing publicly in Accra that his party was merging with EGLE, one of the NDC "progressive alliance" parties to contest Election 2004.