We deprecate in the strongest terms possible the worthless call by Mr. Sekou Nkrumah that the CPP joins the NDC. It is unfortunate that Sekou Nkrumah, an unquestionable member of the NDC will resort to this sort of childish mischief with the aim to wash away the steady gains by the Convention People’s Party. This is a desperate attempt by a drowning party to clinch to a cheap and uninformed propaganda against the CPP- a party which many regard as a phoenix in today’s political landscape. It is against this background that the pragmatic and radical youth group M.O.V.E GHANA (Masses Organized to Vote and Emancipate Ghana) is urging all Ghanaians to condemn this irresponsible and unwarranted call by Sekou in no uncertain terms and treat it with all the contempt it deserves.

Sekou must understand that the CPP is a political organisation of adherent of the socialist ideology and not an Nkrumah blood family enterprise. While we understand that Sekou is entitled to his opinion, we posit strongly that he does not have the right to his own set of facts. Sekou must understand that Ghanaians are not quitters, myopic and as weak willed as he is. He must appreciate the fact that these cheap opportunistic attempts does not weaken the CPP, but rather exposes his ideological bankruptcy. His father in the independence struggle was also confronted with a similar choice; to stick with the moribund UGCC, or to create an alternative. Sekou very unlike his ideologically astute father has chosen a free ride to hell. The CPP is better off without this confused offspring. Sekou must device decent mechanisms to ape his social democratic or social imperialist masters and leave the CPP in its forward march. The CPP is more focused, stronger and organised than ever. Would Sekou be singing the same discord tune if the CPP was in power? Will he be asking the party to change its shoes as he is intimating? In any case which shoes is Sekou talking about, is it the shoes that promised to hit the ground running but hit the ground crawling? At this point we believe some education on political ideology will be helpful to our founder’s son; the (P)NDC is nothing but a disguised neo-liberal party hiding in the shoes of social democracy— a political ideology that is only a compromise form of Capitalism; that is why they have connived with the NPP to transfer the ownership of the Ghanaian economy into the hands of foreigners with empire ambitions. Between the NPP and the NDC who has sold and collapsed more state enterprises that were established by the CPP?

If Sekou has done the slightest scientific analysis of the challenges confronting the CPP, he would have come to the conclusion that, the solution, is not for the party to abandon its socialist ideology and become neoliberal or merge with a party which shares nothing with the CPP, except unscrupulously patronizing the uncontestable legacy of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for their parochial electoral gains.

Only cowards like Sekou, jump-ship when their vessels encounter threatening storms at sea. We all witnessed the undignified and disgraceful manner in which he was axed out of The National Youth Council, and if this infantile overture is intended to win him back the goodwill of his masters, then he is barking up the wrong tree. Doesn’t it appear paradoxical and completely preposterous that a monkey will turn around to inform the shark that the crocodile in the river is dead?

Ghanaians have not only grown weary of these neocolonial parties, but are bitterly disappointed in the P(NDC)-NPP group for ruling this country for the past three decades without any tangible reflection of their policy interventions in the lives of Ghanaians. While this country is being plagued with serious problems such as, falling standards in education, housing, healthcare delivery and life expectancy, unemployment; which has resulted in foot soldiers chasing DCEs and seizing public toilets as well as scrambling over food in parliament, an indication of the paucity of job opportunities in this country with the mass of our youths trekking and dying on the Libyan desert, the NDC is busily funding violent organizations like the Azorka Boys with their General Secretary chanting the now infamous “many ways to kill a cat” phrase. To make matters worse, the NPP’s Bamba Boys are also drinking unconscionably from the blood thirsty pool of “all die be die” pronouncements that portend nothing but mass hysteria.

Ghanaians are for peace. It therefore comes as no surprise that the good and right thinking people of this country are seeking solace in the arms of the CPP; a party which has since concerned itself with providing workable policy alternatives through its united and able leadership of shadow cabinet ministers as to how this country can be effectively ushered into the land of socioeconomic freedom.

Judging from the current political climate and the general disposition of most electorates, they are convinced without a shadow of doubt that the CPP is the only credible political alternative. It is not totally surprising that due to the mass defections that has hit the NDC-NPP group; the likes of Sekou will be wheedled into this sort of monkey business at a time when the youth especially are migrating in droves from all sides of the political divide to the CPP.

Jason Tutu

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Leading Member, MOVE Ghana.