The Convention People's Party (CPP) has strategised to contest the 2024 election, despite internal wranglings that derailed its intentions, the party's National Communications Director, Osei Kofi Acquah, has said.
"We have hopes of contesting to redeem Ghanaians from the hardships that the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress have brought them into," Mr Acquah said in an interview with the Daily Graphic.
He said the party, as part of its reorganisation effort, had set up an Independent Committee (IC) to run its affairs and formed a Reorganisation Committee (RC) to reorganise its grassroots structure.
"The IC came in at a very short time when the whole country was gearing up for the election. It activated the part of the constitution which allows them to invoke internal strategies for the betterment of the party," Mr Acquah explained.
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The RC, chaired by Comrade Moses Yirimanbo Ambing, has been tasked with verifying the party's delegates at the grassroots level.
"The RC visited all the 16 regions, invited regional and constituency chairmen to come with the party's album to verify existing delegates who are still available," Mr Acquah said.
He said the exercise found that the majority of the delegates were still with the CPP, meeting the party's constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority.
The IC then set up a congress committee, chaired by Nana Mireku Tumi, the Western Regional Chairman of the party, to open nominations for flag bearers and parliamentary aspirants.
"The requirements were that the person should have been a member of the CPP for more than four years or more and must be of good standing," Mr Acquah noted.
Mr Acquah said nominations for the presidential primary opened from August 2 to August 7, 2024, while that of the parliamentary is ongoing and expected to end on August 30.
Mr Acquah emphasised that the CPP was now ready to contest the 2024 election. "We have strategised and we are ready to go for the election. We are not going to allow the internal wranglings to derail our intentions again," he said.
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