Posted: Daily Guide |Thursday, 19 August 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
LIKE THE proverbial phoenix, the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) says it will bounce back to power anytime soon and has therefore urged Ghanaians to brace themselves for what promises to be a better future when the party assumes the reigns of power.
A leading member of party at its UK branch, Iris Nathalie says like the founder of the party and Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the CPP never dies.
She said this to rebut claims that the CPP had outlived its relevance in Ghana’s politics since it had failed to win power since the overthrow of Nkrumah in 1966.
This was at a short ceremony held in honour of her late mother, Victoria Nyarko, one of the country’s first ten female members of parliament.
A citation presented by the Nkrumah Centenary Celebrations Committee to the family through the CPP National Chairman, Lardi Nylander acknowledged her unwavering sacrifice to the country stressing “the role you played in bringing women into the forefront of political activity has contributed immensely to the vibrant political landscape currently experienced in the country.”
The late MP was said to have been the first female to have graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon with an honors degree.
Led by her grandmother, Emilia Boafo, Ms. Nathalie emotionally recalled and invoked memories of Nkrumah, her late mother and those of other CPP stalwarts who helped in building Ghana’s, economy into what it is today. Iris charged Ghanaians and members of the party who left the CPP to join other political parties to reconsider their decision and return home.
This, she noted was because the CPP is girding its loins to reclaim what belongs to it saying “this is the resurgence of the CPP.”
On his part, Mr. Nylander charged the rank and file of the CPP to unite and start selling the good ideals of the party and Nkrumah to Ghanaians since it is his firm belief that it is only party that can take the country to the much talked about “promise land.”
He also paid glowing tribute to Madam Nyarko describing her as forthright person and urged her family members to take a cue from their late mother since according to them, her memory still lives on.
National CPP Women’s Organizer, Hajia Hamdatu Haruna also advised Ghanaians to shun the two leading political parties in the country, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and vote for the CPP because they had very little to offer the country. “If you want peace, vote for the CPP,” she said.
The CPP has also asked families of the late Christiana Wilmot and Regina Asomani who both served as MPs in Nkrumah’s government to contact them for their awards.