CPP needs complete overhaul - Nana Frimpomaa-Sarpong
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) needs a complete overhaul from the ward through the constituency, regional and the national executive level for greater impact in Election 2020, an aspiring National Chairperson, Nana Akosua Frimpomaa-Sarpong, has said.
She said the CPP needed new breed of leadership to vigilantly diagnose its electoral haemorrhage and take bold decisions to revamp it.
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In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), she said under the current political dispensation, the CPP had seen its fortunes dwindling.
“Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s political party is struggling even to be recognised as a third force under the Fourth Republic, this is an error, which must be corrected,” she lamented.
Contesting
“I am stepping out to contest and provide a unifying platform for the CPP members to come home and help rebuild the structures of Osagyefo’s party.”
“Collectively, all CPP members need to join forces for re-examination, to dismantle and make extensive renovations in order to repair the party structures from ward through the constituency, regional and national levels and we need all members now than ever,” Nana Frimpomaa-Sarpong stated.
She said she was ready to combine all her attributes as an accomplished entrepreneur, politically astute personality, active gender advocate, who was also traditionally endowed, to develop a strategic master plan to rebuild the party, pointing out that “the CPP is still a formidable party but confronted with deep seated internal mistrust”.
Mobilisation
Nana Frimpomaa-Sarpong said the party must also mobilise all human resources available and build the capacity, especially of leaders on modern day politics and political dynamism of the Fourth Republic electoral environment.
“We must empower identifiable groups – Youth and Women’s wings, Tertiary networks, Council of Elders, aspiring parliamentary candidates and leading members to understand the modern mission of the party,” she noted.
“The CPP cannot move forward with internal wrangling, we need all hands on deck to utilise the knowledge, resources and manpower of members,” she said.
The national chairperson aspirant said if elected into office, she would set-up a special CPP Intra-Party Dialogue Platform (CPP-IPDP) to reduce any animosity among members, adding: “We must find a level ground to settle our differences as comrades”.
“The CPP stands at the crossroads — to move backward into political disintegration or set a democratic standard of moving forward in accordance to its slogan ‘Forward Ever, Backwards Never’.
Campaign messages
Nana Frimpomaa-Sarpong urged the delegates to critically examine the campaign messages and other wooing antics of all leadership aspirants, including the flagbearer slot and decide whom to entrust the fortunes of the party to.
“I stand at the threshold of re-building the party through linking all constituencies to their regional offices and linking the regional offices to the national offices for effective communication,” she noted.- GNA