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Elections 2008 is opportunity for “incremental change” –CPP
Accra, March. 25, Ghanadot/GNA– The Convention People’s
Party (CPP), on Tuesday said Election 2008 is an opportunity
for Ghanaians to vote for a party with ideas for
“incremental change”.
“We voted out Continuity in Change for Positive Change in
Election 2000, but now we need incremental change,” he said.
“I represent real change. Change that Ghanaians can feel;
change that will benefit all Ghanaians, not just a
privileged few; change we can all feel in our individual
pockets and change that will bring national transformation,”
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, CPP Flag bearer for Election 2008, said
at a press conference in Accra.
The press conference and photo-exhibition were organized to
highlight the experiences of the CPP flag bearer’s
Community-Based Campaign tour throughout the country, to
interact with ordinary Ghanaians, professional bodies,
traditional rulers and party functionaries.
He said the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main
opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) were offering
more of the same continuity to benefit those, who had become
well connected since 1993 – professionals politicians and
the elite in society.
“They also practised politics that divided the people,
polarized everything into those for and against”, he said,
adding that, everything that came from them was good while
those from others were bad.
Dr Nduom said the CPP wanted a change from “this bad
attitude” and unite Ghanaians towards a developmental common
agenda of making the nation strong and its people proud and
prosperous.
“Am therefore asking the mandate of the people to vote for
the CPP Presidential candidate and parliamentary aspirants
during the December polls to ensure that we implement humane
policies to liberate our nation once again from deprivation,
poverty, under development, corruption, unemployment and
vindictive politicking,” he said.
On his campaign tour, Dr Nduom who is a former Minister for
Private Sector Development, said the key issues that
confronted Ghanaians were the basics, such as, “jobs that
would pay a living wage; roof over the head; good drinking
water; uninterrupted power supply; good educational system;
proactive health delivery system, security and free
movement”.
Other issues the campaign team identified were the
north/south economic disparity, which continued to widen;
poor infrastructural development, bad roads, and general
neglect of the countryside.
Dr Nduom said a CPP-led Government in 2009, would implement
consistent and aggressive policies to support domestic
industries through the provision of low-interest government
loans and guarantees, technical assistance, tax incentives
and market advantages to ensure that they provided
sustainable jobs and offered living wages and salaries to
workers.
“A CPP Government would take full responsibility to prepare
comprehensive plans to renew and spread basic social
infrastructure - water, electricity, schools, roads, rail
transportation and affordable housing throughout the
country.”
He therefore urged the electorate to vote massively for the
CPP “since the party holds the key to the nation’s economic
liberation, “we are offering the alternative to NPP and NDC
governance”.
Mr Ladi Nylander, National Chairman of the party, assured
the supporters that the CPP was not fronting for any
political party.
”We are in the race to win the elections, we will not join
any political party, but our doors are still open for any
individual or group of people to enter and be part of the
winning team for Election 2008.”
GNA
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