New faces take over CPP

Professor Edmund N. Delle, the newly elected national chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has resolved to unite the Nkrumaist parties to secure the victory that has eluded the party in the 2016 elections.

The medical practitioner who was elected unopposed at the party’s national delegates congress in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital, Sunyani, last Saturday, stressed the need for unity if the Nkrumaists were to make an impact on the 2016 election.

At the Congress, Nii Armah Akomfrah was also elected the General Secretary of the party after warding off stiff opposition from two others - James Kwabena  and Mr Micheal Kosi Dedey.

Nii Akomfrah polled 808 votes to win the position as he beat Mr Bomfeh Jnr who obtained 698 votes and Mr Michael Kosi Dedey who got 467 votes.

Other positions

For the position of the three vice chairmen, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim Haruna, polled 551 votes, while Madam Susan Adu-Amankwah got 467 votes and Alhaji Amadu Tijani Abdul Rahmani obtained 287 votes to become the first, second and third vice chairmen of the party respectively.

Other contestants for the same  positions were Prince Roland Vincent Ahiadro, 208, Ramson Dabihazaaya Yinbil, 96 votes, Seth Otibu Mpare, 128 votes and Kwabena Benyako, 192 votes.

Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Kwao Ogbordjor polled 762 votes to become the national organiser. He beat the other contestants, Rashid Alao, who obtained 748 votes and Mr Amankwah Appiah who had 453 votes.

The youth organiser position went to Mr Ernesto Yeboah who polled 878 votes to beat the other contestants, Mr James Tetteh, who got 578 votes and Mr A.K. Bosompem, who had 504 votes.

Mr Samuel Gordon Etroo polled 1,142 votes as against 807  votes obtained by Dr Adolf Lutherodt to become the treasurer, while Hajia Aisha Sulley polled 1,025 votes as against 946 votes obtained by Ms Anita Abaidoo to win the women’s organiser position.

Prof. Delle

Delivering his acceptance  speech at the National Delegates Congress held at the Sunyani Polytechnic auditorium, Professor Delle declared: “Our plan for the CPP is to unify the CPP parties. We need to work towards unity and we have to lead the unity talk.’’

“We are going to unite. We have our men and the talent and 2016 is our time’’, he emphasised, adding ‘’we have come again to deliver the country and to save the country.

According to Prof. Delle, the CPP could not be treated as a party which was sick or dead.

He added that the party had the intellectuals, as well as men and women with substance who had great responsibility to redeem the party and the nation.

Prof. Delle was of the view that a rejuvenated CPP would contribute meaningfully to the development of the country’s democracy.

He stressed the need for the party to improve its membership in parliament, explaining that this needed hard work and dedication, saying ‘’CPP will never die, we will rise again.’’

Samia Yaba Nkrumah

Addressing the congress earlier, the immediate past national chairperson of the party, Madam Samia Yaba Nkrumah, appealed to members of the party to close their ranks and be united as one party.

She said it was time for the CPP to come to power to complete the unfinished business of the First President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

She noted that it was 50 years since the CPP government was overthrown and that in 2016 the party would come to power.

The two-day congress was on the theme; ‘’Upholding the integrity of Ghana.’’

‘’In 2016, l want to tell you that be not afraid, the spirit of our ancestors will guide us and lead us to victory’’, she said.

She said members of the party had been ridiculed, betrayed, exiled and imprisoned but the party was still firm.

Madam Samia Nkrumah said the party’s first loyalty was for the country, adding that the party was one and wanted to serve the nation.

She said the outgoing national executive was on good terms with the incoming executive and that she was ready to support the newly elected chairman.