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No electoral success without Nkrumaist unity - Chairman
Tamale, Dec. 30, GNA - Major Alhassan Jetuma (RTD), the
Northern Regional chairman of the Convention People's Party
(PNC), has said there would be no electoral success for any
of the Nkrumaists parties without unity.
He said the Nkrumaist parties had faced a lot of set backs
because of some splinter groups within the various
Nkrumaists parties that were adopting uncompromising and
entrenched positions to draw back the clock of progress
within the parties.
In a statement issued to the GNA on Friday, Major Jetuma
said the current political atmosphere in the country called
for a neutral political party to wrestle power from the New
Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008.
He said some individuals in the NPP and the NDC who claimed
to be Nkrumaists were thwarting the efforts of the unity
process because of "Greed and their selfish interests."
Major Jetuma said Ghanaians have suffered for a very long
time from the administrations of the NDC and the NPP and
that the situation needed a complete change to a different
party to salvage the suffering of the citizens.
He said there were some unpatriotic individuals who had
identified themselves with some other parties to the extent
that questions were being raised about their loyalty to
their mother parties.
Major Jentuma appealed to committed members of the
Nkrumaists to denounce such people for progress.
Major Jetuma said "Let no ardent Nkrumaists think that they
can win power without the unity" and that people within the
rank and file of the Nkrumaists should rethink and device
ways of winning power in 2008.
He said due to the lack of vision within the Nkrumaists
parties, many of its supporters were defecting to the
Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).
Major Jentuma said members should forget about symbols and
forge ahead in unity to win the crucial 2008 elections since
symbols do not win elections.
He said the only thorny factor frustrating the success of
the unity talks was the leadership in both the PNC and the
CPP and called on them to soften their stands and come
together to choose a marketable candidate to make progress.
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