A new political party, the Ghana Workers Party (GWP), is to be formed before the end of the year to contest the 2004 parliamentary and presidential elections. Mr. Charles Kofi Wayo, the renegade New Patriotic Party (NPP) former parliamentary candidate will lead the party.
Speaking exclusively to ‘The Chronicle’ over the weekend, Mr. Wayo disclosed that when the party is formally established, it would seek an alliance with Dr. Edward Mahama’s People’s National Convention Party (PNC) to present a credible challenge to the Kufuor-led NPP government.
Dubbed the ‘Nima Boy’, Kofi Wayo stood as an NPP candidate but lost the Ayawaso East constituency seat by a narrow margin to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Dr. Mustapha Ahmed during the 2000 parliamentary elections.
Despite the loss, it is generally agreed that for a first-timer, he gave a very good account of himself and uplifted the image of the NPP within what was seen as an NDC stronghold. But he has since become one of the most vocal and strident critic of the new government.
Wayo told The Chronicle that though he had not formally resigned from the NPP, he believed the Ghanaian people deserved a more dynamic leadership than the current one if their economic lot was to improve.
“The Kufuor administration is totally corrupt and inept and it can never get us out of the economic mess we are in with their International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank engineered policies,” he said.
He said when he joined and financially supported the NPP, he had hoped that the party would perform better than it was doing.
“They are worse than the NDC government,” he added, saying, “With all their so-called educated members with long strings of degrees after their names, they are only experts at throwing dust into the people’s eyes.
“How can you declare Ghana as a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) whilst ministers and party functionaries drive around in expensive luxury cars, stay in 5-star hotels on foreign trips and pay themselves top dollar rates?”, Mr. Wayo questioned.
All Ghanaians needed, he said, was a leader who could ensure that they had jobs, paid their children’s school fees and ate three square meals a day. The Ghana Workers Party, Wayo said, would provide that enlightened leadership and would make the welfare of Ghanaians its ideological platform and major objective.
The country, he observed, has the human and natural resources which when properly harnessed, could ensure a decent life for each and every citizen.
A new political party, the Ghana Workers Party (GWP), is to be formed before the end of the year to contest the 2004 parliamentary and presidential elections. Mr. Charles Kofi Wayo, the renegade New Patriotic Party (NPP) former parliamentary candidate will lead the party.
Speaking exclusively to ‘The Chronicle’ over the weekend, Mr. Wayo disclosed that when the party is formally established, it would seek an alliance with Dr. Edward Mahama’s People’s National Convention Party (PNC) to present a credible challenge to the Kufuor-led NPP government.
Dubbed the ‘Nima Boy’, Kofi Wayo stood as an NPP candidate but lost the Ayawaso East constituency seat by a narrow margin to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Dr. Mustapha Ahmed during the 2000 parliamentary elections.
Despite the loss, it is generally agreed that for a first-timer, he gave a very good account of himself and uplifted the image of the NPP within what was seen as an NDC stronghold. But he has since become one of the most vocal and strident critic of the new government.
Wayo told The Chronicle that though he had not formally resigned from the NPP, he believed the Ghanaian people deserved a more dynamic leadership than the current one if their economic lot was to improve.
“The Kufuor administration is totally corrupt and inept and it can never get us out of the economic mess we are in with their International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank engineered policies,” he said.
He said when he joined and financially supported the NPP, he had hoped that the party would perform better than it was doing.
“They are worse than the NDC government,” he added, saying, “With all their so-called educated members with long strings of degrees after their names, they are only experts at throwing dust into the people’s eyes.
“How can you declare Ghana as a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) whilst ministers and party functionaries drive around in expensive luxury cars, stay in 5-star hotels on foreign trips and pay themselves top dollar rates?”, Mr. Wayo questioned.
All Ghanaians needed, he said, was a leader who could ensure that they had jobs, paid their children’s school fees and ate three square meals a day. The Ghana Workers Party, Wayo said, would provide that enlightened leadership and would make the welfare of Ghanaians its ideological platform and major objective.
The country, he observed, has the human and natural resources which when properly harnessed, could ensure a decent life for each and every citizen.
