CPP will review GT-Vodafon deal-Nduom

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has reiterated its opposition to the sale of 70 per cent shares of Ghana Telecom (GT), making it clear that a CPP government will review the sale if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government goes ahead to sell the shares.
It declared: “If the NPP administration persists in selling it under the huge cloud that has gathered in Ghana, our promise is “buyer beware. We will review this transaction when the CPP comes to power in January 2009”.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra the Campaign Strategist for Nduom for President Campaign Team, Mr David Ampofo, said Ghanaians must be made to manage their own affairs. He was briefing the press on the status of the Nduom campaign and the way forward.
He also expressed shock that the NPP presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, had kept mute in the face of all the hullabaloo about the sale of 70 per cent shares of GT.
He wondered why Nana Akufo Addo, who was a leading member of the Kume Preko demonstration that opposed some policies of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) when the NPP was in opposition, had said nothing about the sale of the GT shares, the attempted sale of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) and the “rumours about the advance sale of our oil, about the huge debts accumulated at the Ministry of Finance, Volta River Authority (VRA), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).”
Mr Ampofo said the membership drive launched recently by the party had culminated in a lot of young people joining the party, attributing the huge following that the party was enjoying to the goodwill that people had for the CPP.
He took a swipe at the NPP and the NDC for polarising the nation and for failing to provide Ghanaians with good quality of life, and gave the assurance that a CPP government led by Dr Nduom would replicate the good policies of Dr Kwame Nkrumah during the First Republic.
On the way forward, he said the party would reach its goal of registering hundreds and thousands of new members and be present in all 20,000 polling stations in the country.