The People’s National Convention (PNC) has declared its readiness to merge with the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to enable the Nkrumaist family clinch power in the December 2012 elections.
The PNC’s general secretary, Bernard Mornah stated that the merger between the PNC and the CPP would ensure a united Nkrumaist front, adding, “There is the need for us to unite as Nkrumaists because that was what Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah stood for.”
He noted that PNC was part of Nkrumah’s heritage and legacy and therefore called for unity in order to win the 2012 general elections.
The PNC’s general secretary was delivering the party’s solidarity message at the National Delegates’ Conference of the CPP at the Sekondi Sports Stadium at Essipong in the Western region last Saturday.
The well-attended congress was on the theme “Ghana Must Work—“Yabre”.
Mr. Mornah expressed the hope that the national executives of the CPP would respond positively to the proposal to help move the Nkrumaist front to the next level.
On his part, Solomon Nkansah, Deputy National Propaganda secretary of the National Democratic Congress, noted that the decision by the CPP and PNC to merge would improve the quest of the Nkrumaist parties to attain political power.
According to him, the best the Nkrumaist family could do would be to take over the position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the biggest opposition party in the country.
Other political parties’ representatives who also delivered solidarity messages at the CPP congress included Kofi Akpalu, the presidential candidate of theIndependent People’s Party (IPP) and Dr. Lartey of the Ghana Consolidated People’s Party (GCPP).
The representatives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kojo Acquah and Kwesi Biney, Deputy National Organizer and 1st Deputy Western Regional chairman of the party respectively had to leave the congress grounds because of delay in commencing the event.
In a telephone interview to explain why the NPP representatives could not deliver solidarity messages, Mr. Biney said that he and the deputy national organizer of the party were at the Essipong stadium on two occasions but left because of the late start of the programme.
Some party delegates, who also spoke to DAILY GUIDE, expressed their frustration at the late start of the congress which according to them, was originally scheduled to take place at midday, but began at 4 pm.
An agricultural scientist and former vice presidential candidate of the CPP, Dr. Abu Sakara, was elected as the CPP’s Presidential candidate for the 2012 elections at the Saturday congress.
He polled 1,130 votes, representing 55.2% of the total votes cast to beat his contender, Lawyer Bright Akwettey, an Accra-based legal practitioner, who secured 917 votes, representing 44.8% of the total votes cast.