The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has rolled out a series of town hall meetings aimed at bridging the communication gap between polling station executives and the national leadership of the party.
The meetings, some of which have already taken place in Ablekuma South, Okaikoi South and Tema Central in the Greater Accra Region, will be replicated throughout the country in the course of this year.
At the meetings in Accra, the polling station executives interacted with the national leadership on polling station organisation, commitment to the party and consensus building, as well as the new membership drive.
The meetings were also used to discuss strategies to stop vote buying and trading among party members during party congresses.
Mr Amankwa Appiah, Chairman of the National Organisation Committee, Mr Ekow Duncan, Chairman of the Political Committee and Mr Eric Kwamena Benyarko, Chairman of Strategy and Research Committee, represented the leadership at the town hall meetings.
Mr Appiah said apart from discussing polling station organisation with the rank and file of the party, the polling station executives were briefed on the new membership management system (database)
He said the database had been designed in such a way that it captured the name, card number, polling station name, telephone and e-mail of party members.
Mr Appiah said the database would assist the party to unravel the mystery surrounding CPP votes, particularly in electoral areas where the party continued to score zero though it had polling station executives there.
He said that the performance of the party in 2016 was going to improve considerably with this new membership management system.
Speaking at the Okaikoi South town hall meetings in Accra, the Chairperson of the CPP, Ms Samia Nkrumah, urged Ghanaians, especially the youth, to study the works and read the books of Nkrumah.
She argued that in the books of Nkrumah were recorded the solutions to Africa and Ghana’s problems.
She explained that the works and thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah were more relevant today than ever because colonialism had been repackaged as globalisation.
She said Nkrumah did not amass wealth but left behind the power of his thoughts which was more enduring than amassing wealth.
