Ho, April 1, Ghanadot/GNA -
Nkrumahists have been urged to unite and organise themselves
under one strong political party reminiscent of Convention
Peoples Party (CPP) of old.
Miss Samia Yaba Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana’s first
President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah who made the call said
that was the only way the Party could be attractive to the
electorate and become a formidable political force in the
country again.
The sole CPP Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Miss Nkrumah
was speaking at the launch of 60th anniversary of CPP and
centenary celebrations of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah in Ho on
Tuesday.
She said Ghanaians who lived during the days of Dr Nkrumah,
and those like her who had read and heard about Dr Nkrumah’s
vision and seen some evidence of his development projects,
were yearning for a formidable political force to revive his
vision and development projects for the country.
Miss Nkrumah said it was time all those who identified
themselves with Dr Nkrumah, his ideas, vision and political
philosophy buried their egos and personalities in order to
collectively forge a strong Nkrumahist political front.
She noted that similar to 1979, only a strong, united and
well organised Nkrumahist political party had the chance to
win the next general elections because many Ghanaians were
yearning for a strong and reliable alternative to the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Miss Nkrumah, said a strong Nkrumahist political machinery,
must revive the political thoughts of Dr Nkrumah, so that
the young and future generations of Ghanaians could read
about his vision and ideas necessary for re-igniting the
nationalist zeal necessary for nation building.
Dr Abu Sakara CPP’s Presidential Running Mate in Election
2008 said current economic downturn in developed countries
and their resort to state intervention to bail out tottering
private sectors vindicated Dr Nkrumah’s strategy of making
the state the prime mover of development.
“It is now clear that state neglect and abandoning
responsibility, to make room for unbridled pursuit of
private sector interests has limitations for increasing
productivity and comes with unacceptable wide social and
economic gaps among the populace”
“The trickle down thesis of unbridled free market has
failed,” Dr Sakara said.
“To advance towards our goal of economic emancipation we
must once again look for fresh and new start. We must revert
to and uphold the core values of the socialism that was
fashioned by our founding father,” he asserted.
Mr Kosi Dedey, Ho-Central Constituency Chairman of CPP
urged chiefs in the constituency to release land for a Kwame-Nkrumah
library where the youth and public could access the ideas
and vision of Dr Nkrumah.
He said the literary works of Dr Nkrumah were very valuable
intellectual and political legacies which others elsewhere
in the world cherished so much but were sadly unavailable to
Ghanaians.
GNA
