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[ 2016-01-31 ]

Prof Agyeman Badu-Akosa

How Prof Akosa flopped on the CPP election prediction
A prominent member of the Convention People’s
Party (CPP), Prof Agyeman Badu-Akosa, has
predicted a landslide victory for Samia Yaba
Nkrumah at the presidential primaries ongoing at
the Trade Fair Centre at La in Accra.

The pathologist and one-time flagbearer-aspirant
of the party declared that the legacy and
principles of the party’s founder, Dr Kwame
Nkrumah, should be maintained, adding that the
daughter of Ghana’s first president was the best
person to do that.

“My expectation is a resounding victory for
Samia Nkrumah. This party owes everything to the
vision and ideology of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Samia best represents that vision and that
ideology. And I am speaking to members of the CPP
to vote resoundingly for Samia. I believe that
even if Samia gets 80%, she has lost. As far as
I’m concerned, if she gets less than 80% she has
lost. Everybody else, give them 5%, give the rest
to Samia Yaba Nkrumah,” Prof Akosa told Class
FM’s Ridwan Karim Dini Osman.

He said his conviction was “on the basis of the
ideology on which this Convention People’s Party
(CPP) was founded”.

According to him, the CPP needed to assert its
unique ideological heritage from the other parties
in Ghana, as over 90 per cent of Ghanaians had not
benefitted from the rule of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party
(NPP) in some 24 years of democratic rule under
the fourth republic, saying it was time to
“bring in someone, who believes in that
fundamental ideology on which the CPP was
founded”.

He said Ms Nkrumah best represents that
ideological platform and “I am urging all CPP
members to vote massively for her. I am saying
even if she gets 80%, I believe in my mind she has
lost, even though all she needs is 50 per cent
plus one”.

He also said: “This is not a neoliberal party.
This is a party that believes in the ideology and
principles of an African personality. We believe
in our own people, not other countries’ people.
We are not influenced by other countries
ideology… The CPP’s ideology delivered Ghana
and the rest of Africa. It’s that ideology that
will continue to lead the way for Ghana and
Africa. And I am saying Samia best represents that
ideological standpoint, that platform on which
Ghana will develop.

Prof Akosa urged delegates not to be influenced by
candidates splashing cash to win their votes. In a
dig at flagbearer-aspirant and former party
general secretary, the medical practitioner said:
“Some people have been general secretary for
eight years. Where is the organisation of this
party? Where is the platform on which they think
they have the audacity to come and contest even
for a presidential slot? For the four years Samia
Yaba Nkrumah was chairman, every pesewa that went
into this party came from her. All her executives
were just looking at her. ‘Bring money, bring
money, bring money’. Today those people have got
the money and they are sharing.”

“Those who are sharing money, they have not
spent one pesewa to advance the cause of the
party.

Source - Classfm



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