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Ndoum chooses running mate
Accra, Sept 21, Ghanadot/GNA – Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, flag
bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), on Sunday
selected Dr. Abu Sakara Foster, an agricultural economists
and First National Vice-Chairman of the CPP, as his running
mate.
He made the announcement at a rally to celebrate the
birthday of the founder of CPP and the first President of
Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The occasion was also used to officially launch the CPP
campaign for the 2008 general election.
Dr. Ndoum said the professional capabilities and
achievements of Dr. Sakara in agricultural mechanization,
rather than his religion, tribe and ethnic group, informed
his choice as running mate.
He said Dr. Sakara, 50, had a proven record of having put
money in the pockets of many Ghanaians and citizens of other
countries through his work in agricultural mechanization.
Dr. Sakara is a Gonja and the Executive Director of Rural
and Agricultural Development Associates.
“This is a man who can run with the vision of the CPP to
provide jobs for Ghanaians and indeed he is a man who can
become president of Ghana one day,” he said.
Dr. Ndoum held the hand of his running mate and their wives
joined them to lift up their hands as a show of unity and
strength to lead the country from next year.
“Look at us” Dr. Ndoum said, “We are no more the CPP that is
made up of old and weak members, we are strong and youthful,
ready to lead our country into prosperity.”
He said the single digit votes that the CPP got in some
constituencies during the 2004 elections was a thing of the
past and that in 2008 election CPP would rake in thousands
of votes whiles its competitors would trail behind with
100s, 10s and single digits.
Dr. Ndoum led the ecstatic throng of CPP faithful to display
their membership cards as a show of their determination to
win power in the December poll.
He reminded Ghanaians that the most important infrastructure
in the country today were those built by the CPP under
Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah, adding that when CPP comes back to
power it would continue with is tradition of building
infrastructure and creating jobs for Ghanaians.
“The NPP has a tradition of selling state property but we
will take back everything they sold and restore it to
Ghanaians so that Ghanaians will benefit from what belongs
to them,” he said.
Touching on the oil recently discovered off the shores of
the country, Dr. Ndoum said if the oil would not benefit
Ghanaians it may as well stay where it is and not be
drilled.
Dr. Ndoum said a CPP government would build a petrol
chemical industry in the Western Region where the oil had
been discovered to create jobs for Ghanaians.
“We do not want another Akwatia, Prestea and Obuasi where
rich mineral resources are being mined and yet the people
live in abject poverty,” he said.
Dr. Ndoum appealed to Ghanaians to give the CPP a chance to
work its magic in creating jobs, saying that a CPP
government would within 100 days in office build a meat
factory, a tomato factory, a sugar factory and jute sack
factory in areas they are most needed.
Dr. Sakara pledged to bring to the CPP campaign what it
would take for the CPP to win the election.
He said the confidence reposed in him as a young man
indicated that “it is time for the youth to rise up and take
up the leadership mantle of this country.”
“We will no longer be contained, we are moving with
resilient faith and confidence for nothing but victory,” he
said.
He assured Ghanaians that a vote for CPP is a vote for
peace, saying that the CPP would not fight with sticks and
stones but with ideas that would put money in the pockets of
Ghanaians.
GNA
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