{"id":58950,"date":"2013-04-05T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/sekou-nkrumah-im-rejoining-ndc-but\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T10:44:27","slug":"sekou-nkrumah-im-rejoining-ndc-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/05\/sekou-nkrumah-im-rejoining-ndc-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekou Nkrumah: I\u2019m Rejoining NDC, But…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sekou Nkrumah says he is considering re-joining the governing National Democratic Congress but not in a hurry.<\/p>\n

The last son of Ghana\u2019s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a member of the CPP but resigned to join the NDC in 2007.<\/p>\n

He later served as Coordinator of the National Youth Authority in the Mills-Mahama administration following the NDC\u2019s victory in the 2008 elections. He however remained a harsh critic of late President John Mills\u2019 style of running the country which cost him his job.<\/p>\n

He nonetheless remained an NDC member but promised never to campaign for then President John Mills or vote for him in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

Dr Nkrumah however later pledged his support for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the Presidential candidate of the main opposition NPP and announced his resignation from the NDC.<\/p>\n

He recently said he belonged to neither the NDC nor the NPP following the defeat of Nana Akufo Addo in the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n

Speaking to XYZ Breakfast Show Host Moro Awudu on Friday April 5, 2013, Dr Sekou Nkrumah said: \u201cThe options are there\u201d between the NPP and the NDC which, he asserted, are the real political parties in Ghana.<\/p>\n

He added that: \u201cI will not be too comfortable with working inside the NPP because of the difference of ideology\u2026I mean supporting them or the candidate for an election, that is a different thing but [to] really be involved in party work [with the NPP], I\u2019ll find that very difficult to do\u201d.<\/p>\n

As far as his consideration to rejoining the NDC is concerned, Dr Sekou Nkrumah said: \u201cEven the rejoining [of the NDC]\u2026has to be also done in the right atmosphere because as I said, when I walked on my own to the NDC, what eventually happened is that things went wrong so in this case it has to be also with like-minded people so there must be an agenda or programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just wrong, you just don\u2019t walk into a party and expect to change things; it won\u2019t work that way, so you have to start working with like-minded people within or from outside and then find a way of positioning yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a more mature and wiser way of going about it; I think probably wisdom comes with time and exposure. I think my first entry in 2007\u2026I think I was not mature enough to understand what was going on at that time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no hurry, there\u2019s no rush because it\u2019s not about Sekou, it\u2019s about the political vehicle and therefore where\u2026you want that vehicle to take you, where you want that vehicle to take Ghana\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dr Sekou Nkrumah says he is considering re-joining the governing National Democratic Congress but not in a hurry.The last son of Ghana\u2019s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a member of the CPP but resigned to join the NDC in 2007.He later served as Coordinator of the National Youth Authority in the Mills-Mahama administration following the NDC\u2019s victory in the 2008 elections. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}