CPP supports PNC in Chereponi by-election

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has thrown its weight behind the People’s National Convention (PNC) candidate for the Chereponi by-election.
It has consequently urged all its constituency executive members and supporters to offer their full support and assistance to the candidate, Ms Rebecca Namana Jabali.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Ivor Greenstreet said the move was part of the final unification process of the two parties towards the 2012 general election and that the PNC selected a female for the election which was in line with the party’s beliefs.
He said the abysmal performances of the two Nkrumaist parties in the recent elections indicated that the best option for winning power and implementing the unfinished policies of Dr Kwame Nkrumah was for the two parties to join forces and present a united front.
He was optimistic that for once the unity talks would yield results because “there is no other option for the two parties”.
According to Mr Greenstreet, all wards, constituency executives and members of the CPP throughout the country had been urged to initiate moves at the local level and discuss how to come out with a united front with their PNC counterparts.
He said the bottom-up approach seemed to be the best guarantee because after all that been said and done it was the grass roots who would campaign for the party to win.
He said as the owners of the party, the grass roots had the larger say in the administration of the party and, therefore, if any move was initiated from their end, those at the helm of affairs could do little about it.
When contacted, the General Secretary of the PNC, Mr Bernard Mornah, described the move as one of the best things to have happened between the two political parties.
He expressed the view that the decision by the CPP to support the PNC in Chereponi would be replicated in all other areas for the two parties to realise their final unification.
Mr Mornah added that the PNC settled on a female candidate as a response to calls by women’s group for political parties to field a woman as part of the measures to encourage more women into active politics.
He said the PNC represented the hopes and aspirations of the poor and the disadvantaged, hence the decision to contest the seat and make life better for the people.