CPP needs fresh, bold and decisive leaders - Prof Akosa

Kumasi, Aug. 29, GNA - Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, an aspiring flag bearer of the Convention People's Party (CPP) has stated that the party needed a fresh, bold and decisive person to lead it to win the 2008 elections.

He pointed out that he was in the presidential race to bring freshness, honesty, integrity and respect into the country's politics. Addressing constituency executives of the party in Kumasi as part of his campaign tour of the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, Professor Akosa, said the CPP was built on the principles of love, respect and service to the people.

He said the nation's politics had over the years been characterized by arrogance and greed on the part of politicians and said it was time the people asserted themselves and demanded accountability from people who sought political power from them.

Professor Akosa said the CPP was a unique political party, which had a home grown ideology that cared for the people and respected divergent views, adding that, CPP was poised to take up the mantle of leadership of the country again and restore it to its past glory. He bemoaned the lack of a clear-cut youth policy in the country and said when elected, the interest of the youth would be his topmost priority.

Professor Akosa acknowledged the challenges facing the party and said he would use the first six months of his campaign to reorganize the party's structures at the grassroots levels and provide the necessary logistics and financial support to enable the party make significant inroads in the 2008 elections.

Alhaji Iddrisu Egala, an aspiring chairman of the party, said Ghanaians were yearning for the CPP to come back and urged the constituency executives to re-organise themselves to win the elections. Mr Osei Tutu Bonsu, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party appealed to the constituency executives to rededicate themselves and work hard to win the 2008 elections.