Ms Samia Nkrumah, MP for Jomoro and daughter of Ghana�s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has picked up nomination forms to contest the chairmanship position of the Convention People�s Party.
She was at the party�s headquarters in Accra Monday afternoon accompanied by members of her campaign team. �We need a drastic change, a reformation, a revitilisation within the CPP to some of our core principles that made our party great and strong.
�We need to speak now. We have a very low presence on the ground. So we need to go back to our core principles of connecting closely with the grassroots,� she told Joy News Nana Agyei Essuman.
She described as unacceptable, the current political situation in which only one to two per cent of the country�s population vote for the CPP during national elections. �This situation is unacceptable for a party that ushered modern Ghana into being; that led, spearheaded our independence movement.�
Samia Nkrumah is optimistic she will be voted as chairman of the CPP after congress, saying she has already tested the ground and it is really fertile for her.
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