Stop selling Nkrumah's legacy to NPP - CPP activist

A leading member of the Convention People's Party (CPP) in the Gomoa District, Nana Kofi Gyansah Impraim, has cautioned the leadership of the party to desist from selling Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's legacy for a cup of tea.

Nana Impraim said it was most unfortunate and suicidal for the leadership of the CPP and PNC to call on their members to vote for the flagbearer of the NPP in the presidential run-off scheduled for December 28.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Apam on Sunday, Nana Impraim said it was unfortunate that the leadership of the two parties had so soon forgotten the attempts made by the present crop of NPP members to obliterate the name of Dr Nkrumah and his achievements from the history books. He cautioned the leadership of the Nkrumaist parties to refrain from entering into "a marriage of inconvenience" with the NPP just because of a promise for ministerial appointments.

"The greatest injustice one can do to the spirit of Dr Nkrumah is to sell his party to the people who overthrew his government after making several attempts to kill him," he said. Nana Impraim warned the leadership of the two parties to withdraw the statements they made calling on their members to vote for Mr J. A. Kufuor.

He said if anything at all, Nkrumaists will be at home with Professor John Atta Mills who was a product of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. Nana Impraim said the (P) NDC government has done a lot to immortalise the image of Dr Nkrumah, including giving his mortal remains a fitting burial at the Old Polo Ground. He urged supporters of the other opposition parties to resist the attempt of their leaders to impose the NPP on them.