Nkrumah Rising Joins “Yentua Campaign”

.... against the CPP Filing Fees

Nkrumah Rising wishes to add its’ voice to the growing backlash against the

incredulous decision by the CPP Central Committee to charge aspiring candidates

to executive positions what can only be described as exhorbitant filing fees.

The memorandum issued by the Chairman of the party set out the following fees:

National

Chairman – GhC 20,000.00

Vice-Chairs, Treasurer and Gen. Secretary – GhC 15,000.00

Organisers – GhC 5,000.00

Regional

Chairman – GhC 1,000.00

Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Gen. Secretary – GhC 800.00

All Others – GhC 500.00

According to the increasingly out-of-touch party hierarchy, the rationale for

these fees was that the money is needed to organize the party, meaning to hold

ward, constituency and regional elections and then congress at the end of April,

2011. This is notwithstanding the fact that they have had over 3-years to

fundraise and prepare for these quadrennially-held elections. What these fees

have done is to reveal the lack or failure of ideas, planning and organization.

Appropriately many in the CPP have condemned the fees, describing them as

“elitist, anti-poor, anti-women, anti-youth” and so on. The effect of these fees

will be to make executive positions in the party the preserve of the rich

or more likely those that are willing to pledge allegiance to a repeat aspiring

flagbearer of the party.

Although holding sub-national level elections are desirable, given the cost, the

lack of time to raise funds and the general lack of confidence in the leadership

with regard to financial transparency and accountability, Nkrumah Rising

proposes that the party should first focus on electing a new national leadership

who should then be given the mandate to organise the party at the sub-national

level, elect a new flagbearer and enable a merger with the other Nkrumaist

political parties.

Nkrumah Rising therefore throws its weight behind the resolution recently

approved by the CPP UK/Eire branch requesting that the fees for ALL aspiring

candidates be reduced to below GhC2,000. It signs up to the "Yentua Campaign”

launched by the youth and grassroots of the party to reduce the fees and

endorses the position taken by the Young Nkrumaist Movement and many others to

actively campaign against any aspiring candidate who endorses these filing fees.

Kadiri Abdul Rauf Issifu

On behalf of Nkrumah Rising

Tel: 0244691415

Email: NkrumahRising@Yahoo.com