No electoral success without Nkrumaist unity - Chairman

Tamale, Dec. 30, GNA - Major Alhassan Jetuma (RTD), the Northern Regional chairman of the Convention People's Party (PNC), has said there would be no electoral success for any of the Nkrumaists parties without unity. He said the Nkrumaist parties had faced a lot of set backs because of some splinter groups within the various Nkrumaists parties that were adopting uncompromising and entrenched positions to draw back the clock of progress within the parties.

In a statement issued to the GNA on Friday, Major Jetuma said the current political atmosphere in the country called for a neutral political party to wrestle power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008. He said some individuals in the NPP and the NDC who claimed to be Nkrumaists were thwarting the efforts of the unity process because of "Greed and their selfish interests."

Major Jetuma said Ghanaians have suffered for a very long time from the administrations of the NDC and the NPP and that the situation needed a complete change to a different party to salvage the suffering of the citizens. He said there were some unpatriotic individuals who had identified themselves with some other parties to the extent that questions were being raised about their loyalty to their mother parties. Major Jentuma appealed to committed members of the Nkrumaists to denounce such people for progress.

Major Jetuma said "Let no ardent Nkrumaists think that they can win power without the unity" and that people within the rank and file of the Nkrumaists should rethink and device ways of winning power in 2008. He said due to the lack of vision within the Nkrumaists parties, many of its supporters were defecting to the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP). Major Jentuma said members should forget about symbols and forge ahead in unity to win the crucial 2008 elections since symbols do not win elections. He said the only thorny factor frustrating the success of the unity talks was the leadership in both the PNC and the CPP and called on them to soften their stands and come together to choose a marketable candidate to make progress.