A presidential aspirant and one of the front liners of the Convention People’s Party, Bright Akwetey has confidently affirmed that the party is coming back strong to take back the presidential seat in 2008.
He says CPP is the only political party that can save Ghana from its current predicament because both the NPP and NDC are implementing Nkrumah’s policies, which could best be implemented by the CPP, which is the original architect of those policies.
Mr. Akwetey made the declaration at the party’s mini rally at Dunkwa in the Upper Denkyira East constituency in the Central Region, which was held over the weekend to officially open the party’s new constituency office and probably to revive and rekindle the spirits of members, which have dampened over the years as a result of the party’s long absence in the political scene.
“98 percent of NDC members were originally members of the CPP. They were deceived into believing that the CPP was no more, which helped the NDC to sweep them away”, Mr. Akwetey said.
“The NDC party is not Nkrumahist. They only masterminded divisions in the CPP and took advantage of it. Rawlings gave the false impression that he is Nkrumahist and brought Nkrumah’s body to Accra. But it was all deception”, he disclosed.
The party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Yaw Asamoah, who financed the establishment of the party’s constituency office, urged all “prodigal” sons and daughters of the party to come back and support the leadership of the party to victory in 2008, since they were not leaving anything to chance.
“It is time for all lost members of the party to come back. We know that NPP and NDC have failed Ghana. We have no other alternative. CPP can do the trick and no other party”. Its time all supporters of the party came back home. Home sweet home” he urged.
Mr Asamoah was in high spirits at the rally because according to him, “if a mini rally has attracted thousands of people in this constituency, how much more a mammoth rally?
He was hopeful that by election time in 2008, the party would be able to win more supporters to their camp and win the elections hands down.
Charles Adu Gyamfi,
