Election 2012… ‘MAKE CPP A WINNER’

The 2008 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party has once again called on the current national executive of the party to take ‘firm charge’ and work hard to ‘make CPP a winner’ in 2012.
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom reiterated the call in a statement he issued immediately after the CPP successfully held its Congress in September this year.
He also called on the new executives to push grassroots organisation forward and encourage competitive, popular parliamentary aspirants to step forward with vim.
“It is my hope that the new executives will take firm charge of the Party quickly, push grassroots organization forward and encourage competitive, popular parliamentary aspirants to step forward with vim. I encourage all leading members to consider becoming Members of Parliament as a means of making the CPP vibrant. The CPP can emerge a winner in 2012!,” Dr. Nduom affirmed.
Dr. Nduom, who is also known as Edwumawura, pledged to offer his unflinching support to build a different CPP.
This CPP, he insisted, must be forward-looking and must have people who are willing to work and make sacrifices with a single purpose vision of making Ghanaians proud and prosperous.
“Ghana needs the CPP and we must all support the executives to unite our people and strengthen the Party. No one should be allowed to divide our ranks again,” Dr. Nduom advised.
According to Edwumawura, since the inception of the Fourth Republic, one important ingredient that has been missing in the CPP is its ability to organise itself at the polling station level.
But he was quick to aver that “with the right executives, a new party can emerge through polling station organization.
This process, he noted, has been started by ordinary members of the party in many places and needs to be completed before the end of 2011.
Dr. Nduom intimated that the recent CPP Congress that successfully witnessed the election of new executives can lead to the building of a “real, formidable Third Force in Ghanaian politics whose policies will make a positive difference in the lives of our people for years to come.”
But for that to happen, he said delegates need to choose people who are prepared and willing to work as a “team playing on the same side.”
Edwumawura also reminded members to be mindful that per the CPP tradition the party is supreme.
“…the CPP delegates at Congress chose a national executive led by Samia Nkrumah as the Chairperson. The CPP tradition is that THE PARTY IS SUPREME. Congress is the highest body of our Party and it speaks for all of us. Congress has spoken and we must all listen and abide by their decision. Prior to congress, I pledged to support without any conditions the people chosen as polling station, constituency, regional and national executives of the CPP. I stand firmly by that pledge,” Dr. Nduom promised.
Dr. Nduom again pledged to support the new national executives to make the “CPP great and strong once”