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USA branch of CPP expresses support for Patriots
Accra, Dec. 27, GNA - The United States of America (USA)
branch of Convention People's Party (CPP) on Wednesday
pledged its support for the Patriots, a pressure group
within the Party.
"We the USA Branch of CPP accept and recognize the Patriots
as the organizing wing of the Party believing that their
activities would enhance the Party’s chances to win the 2008
Presidential and Parliamentary elections,” the branch stated
in an e-mail sent to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.
"We pledge to work towards organizing all supporters and
sympathizers of CPP residing in the USA, Canada, northern
and southern Americas, into a big entity to back up the
general advancement and strengthened organization of the
Party through the Patriots," it said.
The statement was issued at the end of a special meeting
held at Woodbridge, Virginia, USA, attended by leading
members of the branch including, Mr Yaw A. Adu-Otu, Mr
George Kojo Arthur, Mr Ato Sackey, Mr Ebo Kwabena Parker and
Mr Emmanuel Quaye.
They pledged to contribute intellectual support, provide
material needs and other resources towards organizational
work of the Patriots.
In addition, they expressed concern about the lack of
progressive development within the CPP in Ghana, stressing
"We cannot allow the Party that delivered independence to
Ghana and liberation to Africa to go down knowing that the
CPP has been totally dead at the grassroots."
"We are disturbed that the average Ghanaian has lost the
spirit and is without a soul," it added.
The branch called on the CPP leadership to rekindle the lost
identity and dignity of the Party through collaboration with
the Patriots to rejuvenate the regional offices and
constituencies as well as conducting other socially
acceptable and responsible political propaganda activities,
as part of the general preparations towards Elections 2008.
It urged the Party’s leadership to use the media as a useful
tool for dissemination of organizational messages of the
Party.
The Branch also adopted The Patriots’ organizational theme;
"The Collective Identity and Dignity of the Ghanaian" as the
vehicle to formulate a plan for raising funds to support a
CPP Congress in Ghana.
GNA
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