GCPP holds national re-organisation workshop

As part of its repackaging process, the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) yesterday held a national special strategic re-organisation for its national executive committee members and regional officers.
The one-day meeting, which attracted officers from the entire nation, was aimed at equipping regional officers as trainer of trainers to facilitate and position the party well before the 2012 elections.
According Dr Henry Lartey, the interim Chairman of the party, the move was also to ensure that the regional executive were well equipped to facilitate all constituency and regional elections to ensure that the party put together substantive officers prior to its national congress.
He said although the party had not completed the election of some regional executives as demanded by the electoral laws of the country, it had become necessary to equip the remaining regional executives to be able to inculcate membership drive in all their activities.
He said the process of revitalising the grass roots of the party was on course and that it would be climaxed with a national delegates congress to elect a substantive national executive in June this year.
The resource person for the workshop, Mr Timothy McPherson, a German-based organisational consultant, said he flew in to share his experience with the leadership of the party on how best they would be able to organise the party.
He said his style of impacting knowledge was interactive and described the participants as knowledgeable, committed and people with burning desire to achieve positive results.
Mr McPherson, who is an African American, described himself as a Pan-Africanist who believed that Africans were capable of managing their own affairs.
The Northern Regional interim chairman of the party, A. A. Iddi, commended the interim national executive for organising such a workshop for the leadership of the party.
He said he had been enriched and emboldened to go about his activities as the regional chairman and promised to share the experience with members of the party.