Accra, September 21, 2017//-The Convention People’s Party (CPP) says it is unfortunate recent attempts by some forces to re-write the history of Ghana and, by so doing, water down the contribution of Kwame Nkrumah in the emancipation of the Black man as well as in Ghana’s independence struggle.
The Chairman and leader of the CPP Professor Edmund Delle stressed that Dr Nkrumah is the pillar of Ghana and the leading pace setter for the emancipation of Africa.
He made these remarks during the 108th birthday commemoration of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The commemoration was on the theme ‘Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: The Irreplaceable Foundational Stone of Ghana’.
The event attracted the leadership of the CPP including the 2016 flagbearer, Ivor Greesnstreet. In attendance were also some members of the biggest opposition party , National Democratic Congress (NDC) – Lee Ocran and Vice Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.
Meanwhile, NDC has begun efforts to get a database of all its members. According to the party, it is doing away with the biometric register used for the election of their 2016 flagbearer.
“We have decided as a party to scrap that [biometric] one,” said Greater Accra Region Chairman Joseph Ade Coker on TV3’s News @10 on Thursday. He said the imperfections with the expanded register contributed to the ignominious loss of the party in the 2016 elections. Mr Ade Coker pointed out that all efforts exerted to clean it up proved futile.
The former Ghana ambassador to Serbia said the new register will be compiled at the branch level with each and every registered members expected to pay GH¢1 as monthly contributions.
He hinted that already members of the executive council of the party are going around implementing some of the recommendations of the Kwesi Botchwey Committee, one of which is the scrapping of the biometric register. He stated further that the full report of the Committee is with only the National Chairman of the party. He, therefore, debunked reports about the content of the report, saying all are “figments of their own imaginations”.
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