SAMIA TO CONTEST CPP CHAIRMANSHIP SLOT (PAGE 12, NOV 26, 2010)

THE Member of Parliament for Jomoro in the Western Region, Miss Samia Nkrumah, has announced her intention to contest the national chairmanship position of the Convention People’s Party next year.
She described her intention as part of her efforts to bring total unity primarily between the CPP and the People’s National Convention and all other groupings that believed in the Nkrumaist ideologies.
Miss Samia made her intention known at a forum organised by Nkrumah Rising for the Upper West Regional branches of the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC) and the Convention Peoples’ Party in Wa.
The well attended forum attracted constituency and regional executives of the CPP and the PNC.
Nkrumah Rising is an organisation composed of CPP and PNC elements that has as one of its mandates the goal of creating sufficient internal pressure at the grassroots level within both the CPP and PNC to bring about the total unification of the two political parties.
According to Ms Samia, She had held a number of meetings with various stakeholders of both parties and had spoken to them on the need to preserve the Nkrumaist tradition and that “I am not concerned about names and symbols but what we need now is sincere leaders who are not interested in bargaining before elections”.
“We need people who are ready to sacrifice and compromise. We need to compromise trivialities. Don’t let anyone tell you about obsession in names,” She stated.
She pointed out that what should be done was to eliminate why people did not vote for splintered Nkrumaist parties adding “we should eliminate that sing song and show to Ghanaians that we are credible”.
Ms Samia said when she won the Jomoro parliamentary seat there were assertions that she won because of the legacy of her father, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.
“If they are saying that, should that be the legacy which should be rejected? If that name can be used to win votes and elections, is it wrong? she asked.
If she’s successful, Samia Nkrumah would become the first female chair of a major political party.