Honest views and opinions hold CPP's future

Accra, July 4, GNA - Mr Mohammed Yakuku Houghas, the newly elected North Okaikoi Constituency Secretary of the Convention Peoples' Party (CPP) on Friday said the party's future rested in the expression of honest and candid views. "If members would express their views and positions honestly, without vilification and acrimony, the party would come out from congress renewed, strengthened and poised to take it rightful place in the next elections," he said.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Houghas said the parameters within which the debate of the CPP's future must be captured should be largely cantered on the principles of democratic centralism enunciated by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. "Let us always endeavour to live by the true principles of our founder in order not to throw the "baby" away, along with the bath water," he said. He said political alliances and cooperation pacts, were normal political dispensations, and any thought by the CPP of cooperation or aligning with any political party outside the Nkrumaist framework in the current weakened state of the party, would amount to surrender and would be humiliating.

Mr Houghas said the grand occupation of leaders; activists and sympathisers of the CPP now should be to work through thick and thin to get functional structures on the ground and work towards building a real and viable party capable of competing with other parties. He advised members to conduct themselves in the best of democratic culture by refraining from intolerance, names calling, lies and insult which tended to put the party and it leaders in a bad light before the general public.