I joined CPP by “mistake” – Ernesto Yeboah

Deputy National Youth Organiser of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Ernesto Yeboah has revealed to Morning Starr host Kafui Dey that he joined the Nkrumahist party by “mistake”.

According to him, his initial political orientation from school was to either join the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the New Patriotic Party (NPP) until he mistakenly chanced on a book that taught him about the ideals of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President.

“The CPP is the only party that is attacked in government text books for students in JHS, SHS and even in university books.

“They tell so many things about Kwame Nkrumah which are false. They tell us he created a one-party state but historical records have it that the people of Ghana voted for it.

“I even became a member of the CPP and an Nkrumahist for that matter; by mistake. Because I was completing my SHS feeling and knowing that my natural home was either the NPP or the NDC until I saw a book that was been swept in a pile of heap so I took it, dusted it, opened it and it was Osagyefo’s book.

"I started reading about him and what he stood for and immediately, I realised that the NPP and NDC were no good,” he recounted.

Members of the CPP are hitting the streets today to protest against what they describe as the injustice being meted out to the party's supporters and their founder Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

The protest also marks the 49th anniversary of the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah.