CPP polls: Six reasons Samia lost

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ghanaman 8 years ago

This is very fine analysis from the classfm writer! Hopefully, this will mark the era of high-quality political analysis devoid of party affiliation, an era that Ghanaweb readers can't wait to welcome!

This is very fine analysis from the classfm writer! Hopefully, this will mark the era of high-quality political analysis devoid of party affiliation, an era that Ghanaweb readers can't wait to welcome!
NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 8 years ago

100 reasons why NPP at all costs will lose massively this 2016............................. to be continue

100 reasons why NPP at all costs will lose massively this 2016............................. to be continue
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”,

In the full glare of the President, Vice Preside ...
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Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”,

In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”

He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”

“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”

“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”
MONDAY 8 years ago

EVERY BODUY WANTS TO COME AND CHOP. THIS STUPID STREET MAN ACCUSES NDC OF CORRUPTION AND HE IS ALSO SO CORRUPT EVEN BEFORE BECOMING THE PRESIDENT? THIS GUY THINKS HE CAN PULL CPP TO NPP? NO WAY!!

EVERY BODUY WANTS TO COME AND CHOP. THIS STUPID STREET MAN ACCUSES NDC OF CORRUPTION AND HE IS ALSO SO CORRUPT EVEN BEFORE BECOMING THE PRESIDENT? THIS GUY THINKS HE CAN PULL CPP TO NPP? NO WAY!!
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

This was a thoughtful analysis devoid of the usual partisan insults. I hope Nkrumaists like Prof Lungu and Francis Kwarteng take note

This was a thoughtful analysis devoid of the usual partisan insults. I hope Nkrumaists like Prof Lungu and Francis Kwarteng take note
Kofi 8 years ago

The usual fare of insults and bias absent here.

The usual fare of insults and bias absent here.
kissi abrokwah 8 years ago

The tension with Ndoum was the genesis of her problems. Nduom would have marketed her better than she could ever do by herself. Prof Akosah misled her to believe she was indestructible. With Nduom, she would have maintained h ...
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The tension with Ndoum was the genesis of her problems. Nduom would have marketed her better than she could ever do by herself. Prof Akosah misled her to believe she was indestructible. With Nduom, she would have maintained her seat and still run 2016 because Nduom was going to hand her the baton. Her political career in Ghana is over. Very sad!!!!
SAINT 8 years ago

THE TRUTH IS THAT GHANAIANS ARE USED TO BEING LED BY A MAN.
COMRADE GREENSTREET SHOULD WORK HARD TO UNITE THE PARTY AND INCREASE THE REGISTERED MEMBERSHIP.

THE ELECTION OF COMRADE GREENSTREET HAS TRIGGERED HOPE IN THE PAR ...
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THE TRUTH IS THAT GHANAIANS ARE USED TO BEING LED BY A MAN.
COMRADE GREENSTREET SHOULD WORK HARD TO UNITE THE PARTY AND INCREASE THE REGISTERED MEMBERSHIP.

THE ELECTION OF COMRADE GREENSTREET HAS TRIGGERED HOPE IN THE PARTY WHO TOOK CARE OF US WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN BORN INTO EXTREME POVERTY THROUGH NO FAULT OF OURS.

WE ARE STILL GRATEFUL TO THE GREAT OSAGYEFO FOR POVERTY-ALLEVIATION POLICIES; BUT FOR NKRUMAH SOME OF US WILL NOT BE ALIVE TODAY.

SOME OF US WILL REVERT OUR ALLEGIANCE TO CPP ON NOVEMBER 7.

FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER.
CAPE COAST BOY 8 years ago

MODERN GHANA NEEDS MODERN IDEAS NOT NKRUMAH 'S OLD STUFF

MODERN GHANA NEEDS MODERN IDEAS NOT NKRUMAH 'S OLD STUFF
alex kodiww 8 years ago

Today, Ghana's population is 80% below age 55 or close to something like that. That is about 100% of all those born after nkrumah was kicked out. This section of the population hardly know him except for the little they read ...
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Today, Ghana's population is 80% below age 55 or close to something like that. That is about 100% of all those born after nkrumah was kicked out. This section of the population hardly know him except for the little they read about him. Using "Nkrumah" as a byline to sell to the youth today is like selling cassettes in the days of the MP4, seeeeeriously out of date!!!!
In his speech to annex the flagbearership of the CPP few years back, Prof Akosa quoted "Nkrumah" 43 times. The result?, a miserly 2% of votes. Fifty yrs after Nkrumah, Prof Akosa it seems, cannot develop his own vision. See, Nkrumah himself when he came on the scene developed his own vision, he did not go around quoting Paa Grant or the forebears, 15 times in a speech.
My two cents? forget Nkrumah nad think Greenstreet today. highlight Greenstreet as the man who may have no legs but has balls, big enough to tackle today's problems.
That is what will get me to vote for the first time for CPP. Time is long past for Nkrumah this Nkrumah that...
Oratorio 8 years ago

For some of you, politics has been reduced to the crass level of frivolous campaigns and the winning of elections and after that, zilch. This is the kind of nonsense that comes with a mind that is beclouded with hard core ill ...
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For some of you, politics has been reduced to the crass level of frivolous campaigns and the winning of elections and after that, zilch. This is the kind of nonsense that comes with a mind that is beclouded with hard core illiteracy.

For an adult - presumably an educated adult, who comes out with hysterical trash such as, "This section of the population hardly know him (Nkrumah) except for the little they read about him", is a sad reflection of the educated Ghanaian or of even the mentality of the Ghanaian adult. I would like to ask Alex Kodiww if he or any Ghanaian, or for that matter, anybody living in the world today, 'knew' Shakespeare, John Maynard Keynes or any of the 'conspirators' of the Bretton Woods system of economic development which is being widely used all over the world today as the blue-print of capitalist development?

Does Kodiww 'know' the founders of the Christian church? Does Kodiww 'know' Einstein? Does Kodiww 'know' Thomas Edison who is said to be one of the inventors of the light-bulb which 99% of mankind continue to use today? I could go on and on and on but suffice it to say that the most ridiculous and asinine fallacy that the Ghanaian youth of today do not 'know' Kwame Nkrumah hence the reason that the following and election results of that party are low, can be described and summed up in one word, stupidity.

Citing Akosa as a prime example of a leading member of the CPP, is in itself quixotic. Akosa is just simply one of the many incompetent opportunists who have monopolized the CPP hierarchy - probably at the behest of the unseen hands of global imperialism, to neutralize that party. This they would do to undermine the principles of Nkrumaism, the only existing dogma that has the particular capability to threaten the continuing rape of Africa by the global forces of greed and imperialism. This is why Nkrumaism is still pertinent and relevant to the African liberation struggle - perhaps not to you who does not have the intellectual capacity to understand these complexities but certainly to the few who are merely lucky enough to have attained the hallowed heights of a liberated slave.

"Forget Nkrumah and think Greenstreet"? Are you sane, or is it that you are simply on some of that stuff that Greenstreet smokes? If you yourself claim that Nkrumah, Paa Grant et al all came with their own vision, where, in that case, is Greenstreets vision? Greenstreet has been lurking around at various vital positions in the hierarchy of the CPP for several years now but I bet nobody - including yourself can confidently say for sure what his ideological sympathies are. For Gods sakes, it is even said that the man cannot even write a decent paragraph of clean English. This is the man who you, in your retarded mind, think can replace Nkrumah. It is like saying that Shatta Wale is the greatest musician in the world today.

Some of you need to tone down your sentiments when you are presenting your views in the public domain instead emotionally going all out to expose your crass levels of ignorance to the world.
alex kodiww 8 years ago

Some of you need to tone down your sentiments when you are presenting your views in the public domain instead emotionally going all out to expose your crass levels of ignorance to the world.

I see I guess that is exactly ...
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Some of you need to tone down your sentiments when you are presenting your views in the public domain instead emotionally going all out to expose your crass levels of ignorance to the world.

I see I guess that is exactly what you just did?
See I honestly pity your kind; retired old young pioneers, cpp old apparachicks and sympathizers who thought Nkrumah was a god but now realize in utter horror that his name is no longer worth that mush even to the extent that his very own dearest daughter could be so trashed in an election in his very own party by a man with no legs! Oh How sad! forgive me okay? for rubbing your wounds. I dont know how old you are but it must be very though on you for me to tell you the truth. I am 48 years old, I dont know Nkrumah more than I know Paa Grant, all of them worthy historical figures.
I know that's harsh for you who thought Nkrumah was a god. Come again with your warped logic. You mention shakepeare, keynes etc, tell me who is quoting shakespeare or keynes profusely like your cult worshipping nkrumah followers do? Please take your drugs.
Asempa 8 years ago

Equating the great name of Nkrumah with this CPP is a fallacy. Remember our history. It was this type if degenerative CPP that led to the unfortunate coup against Nkrumah. When the Nkrumahists came back to power, it was with ...
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Equating the great name of Nkrumah with this CPP is a fallacy. Remember our history. It was this type if degenerative CPP that led to the unfortunate coup against Nkrumah. When the Nkrumahists came back to power, it was with the name PNP! For more than 3 decades, the collosal influence of Nkrumah and the Nkrumahists have continued to win power under the name of NDC. So, it is surprising that a bunch of Nkrumahist pretenders went to court and secured the name CPP, and suddenly, they thought they could bring back the Nkrumah magic? Even PNC, another heir of the Nkrumah tradition, continues to perform better than the empty shell of the name CPP. Good luck, Ivor, you finally have your chance to stand bold against the overwhelming majority of the real Nkrumahists massed up in the NDC!
kofikofi 8 years ago

Ghana journalists are such a disgrace to the practice and the English language. The man is already using the chair and you wrote that he is "bound".fools.

Ghana journalists are such a disgrace to the practice and the English language. The man is already using the chair and you wrote that he is "bound".fools.
Tet 8 years ago

"wheel chair bound " just means 'confined to a wheel chair '.Though it is considered offensive today, it is not improper use the English. "Physically impaired ' could have been used.

"wheel chair bound " just means 'confined to a wheel chair '.Though it is considered offensive today, it is not improper use the English. "Physically impaired ' could have been used.
Ken Ntiamoa 8 years ago

7. The seventh reason, and probably the most important reason, is that Ghanaians
are a proud people and would not want a foreigner become their President.
Nkrumah’s children, though born in Ghana, were not bred in Ghana. ...
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7. The seventh reason, and probably the most important reason, is that Ghanaians
are a proud people and would not want a foreigner become their President.
Nkrumah’s children, though born in Ghana, were not bred in Ghana. The coup of 1966 forced
them out of the country. They grew up elsewhere. They have no classmates and no constituency
in Ghana. They just recently resettled in the country. I believe the story would be different, if it were Dr. Francis Nkrumah who is trying to lead the CPP. That’s my opinion.

Ken
Show Biy 8 years ago

Ken, I lived in Ghana most of my adult life! Check the facts before you write rubbish!

Ken, I lived in Ghana most of my adult life! Check the facts before you write rubbish!
john 8 years ago

This is also the reason why Nana can never be president of Ghana.

This is also the reason why Nana can never be president of Ghana.
HARDER@'-89 8 years ago

Nkrumah's fatigue yes, but unlike the Npp who have been smart enough to build a wider founders heritage in reference not only to the image commandered by the big six but also recently their claim to the danquah/ busia/ dombo ...
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Nkrumah's fatigue yes, but unlike the Npp who have been smart enough to build a wider founders heritage in reference not only to the image commandered by the big six but also recently their claim to the danquah/ busia/ dombo ancestry. this as aspected will tactically create the obvious broader sense of belongingness from people from areas where these notable founders of the NPP hails would act and feel towards the party. the widespread acceptance the npp enjoys nationwide same could be said abt the NDC though the claim of chairman rawlings as sole founder notwithstanding has not watered down its growing national appeal as it is an amalgam of all the existing political traditions as it also presents notable and distinguished persons across nation as its front line members...
same cannot be said about the CPP. time without number we have been made to believe that its all kwame nkrumah who singlehandedly foundered the CPP yet the fact is komla agbeli gbedemah, a founder and a key member of the cpp was very very instrumental founding member of the CPP when he together with nkrumah broke away from then ugcc to form the CPP. Here we are been told nkrumah won elections whiles in prison, yes that is so but the truth really is how does a person win an election without campaigning...?? Komla Agbeli Gbedemah with his exceptional organisational skills was the one single individual who masterminded and provided the victory to nkrumah by first ceding his seat in ayawaso or accra new town to nkrumah and went the full haul nationwide campaigning in every nook and cranny of then gold coast to secure the needed victory for nkrumah's ascent to the premiership role in 1951. besides Gbedemah was equally instrumental in crafting the first development plan for the cpp govt. yet today its all about only nkrumah, nkrumah and nkrumah. is that fair...? here for covert tribal reasons Gbedemah's name is never ever , obliquely or directly ever come for mentioning.. why, CPP, a hypocritical members of todays cpp why this gross tribal sidelining of notables like Afro Gbede.....? some one may claim they fell out of love, yes indeed they fell out..but that should and wont in anyway vitiate the indispensable and unassailable role Komla Agbeli Gbedemah played in making him, nkrumah what he is now. and indeed if nkrumah had listened to the counsel of his right hand man and first finance minister chances are the cpp govt wouldnt have suffered that traumatic and tragic end in 1966 and all that they have been afflicted with ever since and lately...now the self seeking motives and greed by cpp stalwalts is just too palpably evidenced in the way Papa kwesi ndoum undermined george aguddey in 2004 and vise versa when they respectively hard the chance to lead the party...
Akua Donkor 8 years ago

WHO IS THIS WHITE MAN WHO WANTS TO LEAD GHANA. IS HE ANOTHER OF THE STRANGE FANTIS WHO TOO ENGLISH NAMES AFTER KICKING THEIR BACKSIDES? PROPER GHANAIAN NAMES ARE
JJ RAWLINGS, HILLA LIMANN, BAWUMIA, JIHADI JOHN MAHAMA, AKUA D ...
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WHO IS THIS WHITE MAN WHO WANTS TO LEAD GHANA. IS HE ANOTHER OF THE STRANGE FANTIS WHO TOO ENGLISH NAMES AFTER KICKING THEIR BACKSIDES? PROPER GHANAIAN NAMES ARE
JJ RAWLINGS, HILLA LIMANN, BAWUMIA, JIHADI JOHN MAHAMA, AKUA DONKOR ETC LOL
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

We do not need the interpretations, those are more or less your opinion.

---- THIS IS THE LOGICAL END -------

We do not need the interpretations, those are more or less your opinion.

---- THIS IS THE LOGICAL END -------
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

She can always team up with Mrs. Rawlings.

She can always team up with Mrs. Rawlings.
amoah w. 8 years ago

will the author of these fine article please stand up

will the author of these fine article please stand up
Ekow Samuel. 8 years ago

The need of Mrs Samia Yaaba is a reason in veep so is up to CPP for choseing her to make a diffreant and the masses of ghana to this comeing morden and its good Aganda of ghana and even the hold world is waiting of that, or t ...
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The need of Mrs Samia Yaaba is a reason in veep so is up to CPP for choseing her to make a diffreant and the masses of ghana to this comeing morden and its good Aganda of ghana and even the hold world is waiting of that, or to chose Mr, Ndoum Kwesi as a unification group of ghana our motherland which will let the two parties to learn for the next or future elections about ndc and npp be'cos they always sure that if this not win this will win and....realy just imagin how the rivers and lakes are getten spoille, they'er there and nobody mine of that, and if there is no water then the natual once that has given, and....they forget it and again just imagen when it was a force law that help us in a move of every person in ghana and even a whiteman use to asked then we gave to them to drink during that time,today every thing is gettten spoille and with this we have to sitdown for ndc and npp? anyway if we have third strong party that will unite for geting the victory then it is good and.....we hve to vote for the Samia Yaaba since mr, Greenstreet has win or Mr, Ndoum if he is agree and we hope he will be agree!,God bless you oman ghana and Longlive!.
John K 8 years ago

Make Samia the vice presidential candidate so the CPP can show Ghana that a woman can also lead in the capacity. This can be the Genesis of reform in male dominant profession. CPP Presidential candidate for 2016 make your mov ...
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Make Samia the vice presidential candidate so the CPP can show Ghana that a woman can also lead in the capacity. This can be the Genesis of reform in male dominant profession. CPP Presidential candidate for 2016 make your move and drop any ounce of ego left in you and make Samia your VP.
We are rooting for you.
Show Boy 8 years ago

Sekou lived in Ghana almost all his adult life! Ken?

Sekou lived in Ghana almost all his adult life! Ken?
Ken Ntiamoa 8 years ago

Why is he not vying for a Parliamentary seat or to lead his father's party, then. Just a note to you, Showboy. I like your second comment more so than the first. What I wrote is not rubbish. Let's be civil.

Ken

Why is he not vying for a Parliamentary seat or to lead his father's party, then. Just a note to you, Showboy. I like your second comment more so than the first. What I wrote is not rubbish. Let's be civil.

Ken
Tatunane 8 years ago

I will read this piece from the last word backwards to the first! Thumps up for the curator!!

I will read this piece from the last word backwards to the first! Thumps up for the curator!!
Ibn ,@ CanadasheabutterGhWR 8 years ago

The social economic decay of the country. Time to awake & remind Ghanians What CPP stood for past & present.

Let's hit the younger generation who're helpless without hope. Despair makes young older than their ages.

H ...
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The social economic decay of the country. Time to awake & remind Ghanians What CPP stood for past & present.

Let's hit the younger generation who're helpless without hope. Despair makes young older than their ages.

Hope once again. Unite all we are trilinguals to throw in our weight. Only Nkrumah . Nkrumah & CPP 7 year development plan.

God bless our motherland Ghana & bless the CPP - Ameen
Kwaku 8 years ago

Look, modern day CPP is NDC. So Greenstreet and Samia are wasting time and money. CPP should join CPP better.

Look, modern day CPP is NDC. So Greenstreet and Samia are wasting time and money. CPP should join CPP better.
Kwaku 8 years ago

Correction, CPP should join NDC

Correction, CPP should join NDC
THE VOICE 8 years ago

PLANTED ON THE INDEPENDENCE DAY GHANAIANS ARE HARVESTING NOW.INDEPENDENCE MY FOOT.UN LESS THESE USELESS LEADERS BEG ON THEIR KNEES NAKED THESE HOUSE NIGGERS WILL GO HUNGRY.WORTHLESS AFRICANS HAVE WASTED 60 years CLAIMING IN ...
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PLANTED ON THE INDEPENDENCE DAY GHANAIANS ARE HARVESTING NOW.INDEPENDENCE MY FOOT.UN LESS THESE USELESS LEADERS BEG ON THEIR KNEES NAKED THESE HOUSE NIGGERS WILL GO HUNGRY.WORTHLESS AFRICANS HAVE WASTED 60 years CLAIMING INDEPENDENCE.
ko,no problem,a 8 years ago

What is new history? were these Nkrumah,s children
Professor Hassel
Agude
Nduom
Delle
Greenstreet
Ladi Nailander
Dr. Abu Sakara

Samia just came to be active in the CPP. Why should people draw that conclusion

What is new history? were these Nkrumah,s children
Professor Hassel
Agude
Nduom
Delle
Greenstreet
Ladi Nailander
Dr. Abu Sakara

Samia just came to be active in the CPP. Why should people draw that conclusion
ko,no problem,a 8 years ago

The writer forgot to state that the so called Nkrumah,s son Onxy also gave credence to the thought that they think the CPP is for Nkrumah,s children. His conduct is nauseating indeed.

The writer forgot to state that the so called Nkrumah,s son Onxy also gave credence to the thought that they think the CPP is for Nkrumah,s children. His conduct is nauseating indeed.
Free Voter 8 years ago

Good for students, academia and beer bar discussions. Our politics should be like that and not "if one party was chopping then another party can also chop"

Good for students, academia and beer bar discussions. Our politics should be like that and not "if one party was chopping then another party can also chop"
Damanga 8 years ago

Now these CPP fools want to carry out his political aspirations. Sad indeed.

Now these CPP fools want to carry out his political aspirations. Sad indeed.
Kwame 8 years ago

The better Ghana is here and is seen in the development projects the NDC led by President John Dramani Mahama has done and continue to do. It is a fact that it is individual Ghanaians who do farming, buy and sell farm product ...
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The better Ghana is here and is seen in the development projects the NDC led by President John Dramani Mahama has done and continue to do. It is a fact that it is individual Ghanaians who do farming, buy and sell farm products to they are to see to it that people do not go hungry and also the cost of food is not to high. When it comes to manufacturing the private sector control the majority of the factories, banking system, services and transport. Thus when when those who control the means of production and distribution complain that the economy is hard when they run it, then it shows that they are not competent. The same people say that the state must collect taxes to run the civil service, thus since they make the money they are supposed to build roads, habours hospitals, sport complexes, schools, just to mention few. The government borrow money to undertake those project, however those who said that they are in business to make things better for Ghanaians claim that things are hard when they run what they claim to be hard. There is a lot of inefficiency in the private sector. For instance how can water sachet producers ignore competition by seating down as a group to fix the price of a water sachet. It means that all of them are inefficient.
AKWA Obodai 8 years ago

Make Mr Amakwaa Appiah aka Appiah CPP the vice presidential candidate

Make Mr Amakwaa Appiah aka Appiah CPP the vice presidential candidate
AKWASI 8 years ago

NPP MONIES GALORE

NPP MONIES GALORE
Yaw Adu-Asare 8 years ago

Focus on the interest of the party instead of Samia or Greenstreet.

Focus on the interest of the party instead of Samia or Greenstreet.
Kweku 8 years ago

great reading this letter, very insightful.

great reading this letter, very insightful.

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