Convention Party calls for party discipline

Accra, Sept. 21 GNA - Mr Felix Amoah, Acting Chairman of the Convention Party (CP), on Tuesday said the party would not compromise on party discipline. He said although politics is a game of numbers the Central Committee of the party would expel any member who is not disciplined.

Mr Amoah said this when the CP celebrated the 90th birthday of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, leader and founder of the erstwhile Convention People's Party (CPP) and first President of Ghana.

He said this practice was called "party discipline" in the first republic and called on party members to desist from calling old members "old guards" because without them the party cannot survive. He said he would prefer party members to use the terms "Senior Comrades" and "Junior Comrades" and nothing else.

Mr Kojo Botsio, former Interim Chairman of the party, congratulated Col Moamar Gaddafi, the Libyan Leader, for hosting the Fourth Extra-ordinary OAU summit held in Sirte, Libya, at which African unity was discussed.

Mr Botiso called on all aspiring presidential candidates of the party to forget about their differences after the election and rally behind the winner to ensure that CP wins the next presidential elections. "We shall go forward united and conquer," he declared. P

rofessor Mawuse Dake called on all to go back to the days of Positive Action and join hands with the students to fight the current user fee crisis in the universities because, as he puts it, the government wants to destroy education which is a legacy of Dr Nkrumah.