CPP Chair, Ms. Samia Yaba Nkrumah
Chairperson for the Conventions People’s Party (CPP), Samia Yaba Nkrumah has affirmed, her party will not form a merger with either the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) or opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), on the basis that the CPP is threatened with extinction.
According to Samia, the NDC and NPP have for the past 20 years, pursued programmes that did not make meaningful impact on the lives of the Ghanaian.
Speaking on the Joy FM Super Morning Show, Thursday, January 24, 2013, the immediate-past Member of Parliament for Jomoro constituency in the Western Region said: “The two big parties have in the last 20 years listened to advises and implemented programmes that have not worked.”
“We are not interested in joining one big party to save our skin…If we gave away our principles then we have no mission, then there is no need for us to exist…Ghanaians don’t want us to disappear or be submerged in one of the big parties,” Samia emphasised.
The daughter of Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah however stated, the CPP will only consider a merger with a political party that shares in the ideologies of her late father- serious policies on industrialization that will lead to economic transformation. Any party that meets those conditions she stressed, will be considered for a merger.
Ms. Nkrumah, who is on a mission to rebrand the CPP ahead of the 2016 general elections, said they are currently in talks with parties that share in Nkrumah’s ideas- Peoples’ National Convention, Great Consolidated Popular Party among others- for a possible merger to present a solid front to recapture power.
She is confident the party that once produced the first President for the country, will bounce back and recapture political power and continue Dr. Nkrumah’s programmes which said, have been shelved by succeeding governments.
Listened to Samia Nkrumah in the attached audio