Nduom Wishes CPP Well As It Elects Flag-Bearer

2012 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has extended his best wishes to the Convention People’s Party (CPP) as the party gets ready to elect a flag-bearer for the 2016 General Elections on Saturday, January 30, 2016.  Dr. Nduom cautioned the party to elect a candidate who would be more of a unifier than someone who will further weaken the CPP. “My hope is that they will elect somebody who will be more of a unifier, who would want to bring people more together, and not someone who by his or her election as a flag-bearer will cause the party to splinter some more,” he intimated. Though Dr. Nduom is not a member of the CPP, he said he did not want to see the party become weaker than it is now, because according to him, that would not help  its electoral fortunes. Four members of the party are aspiring to become CPP’s presidential candidatefor theNovember 7 presidential polls. Former General Secretary, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, former Chairperson, Samia Yaba Nkrumah, twice defeated flag-bearer aspirant, Mr. Bright Akwetey, and a business executive, Joseph Agyapong, will know their fate at the end of voting tomorrow at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre, where over two thousand six hundred (2,600) party delegates are expected to elect a candidate. CPP has been dogged by internal squabbles which problem came to a head in 2012 when a splinter group emerged to form the Progressive People’s Party. Incidentally the 2008 CPP presidential candidate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, became the candidate for PPP during the last presidential polls in 2012. Early this month, the 2012 presidential candidate of CPP, Dr. Foster Abu Sakara, announced his resignation from the CPP and disclosed that he would be contesting the 2016 elections as an independent candidate. Dr. Nduom told a news conference in Accra that he wished the CPP would learn lesson from the problems that confronted it after the 2007 delegates’ Congress in Kumasi