Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Ocquaye has waded into the long held view the convention peoples party will not be able to stand on its own feet and be relevant, unless it is able to extricate itself from the opposition NDC.
The CPP under Nkrumah won independence for Ghana but its fortunes, after the 1966 coup, has seen a considerable decline in its fortunes.Â
The party no longer has a single seat in Parliament, living many to doubt if it has what it takes to be any more relevant.Â
Most of its ideologues are either with the NDC as members or sympathizers, leaving the few there to only hold on to Kwame Nkrumah's political beliefs as their pride of glory. But speaking at a public lecture to mark the 70th anniversary of the formation of the UGCC, Prof. Ocquaye, who disputed the founding father status given to Nkrumah, said until the CPP elements in the NDC make their jump back, nothing good will happen to them.
" They have been swallowed and know who swallowed them."
He said both the NDC and CPP are not ideological friends and that must be established.
On Nkrumah's legacy, he said prior to becoming president, he had shown considerable tendencies of becoming a dictator, because he allied himself with communist elements and was therefore schooled into a state of running a government that cannot be me challenged.
Events leading up to the lecture generated a debate over whether or not Ghana's march to independence started after Nkrumah had left the CPP or with the formation of the UGCC, which he joined as a general secretary
CPP stalwarts dispute claims made by journalist Paul Adom Otchere that, Nkrumah could not have been the founder of Ghana and that, others played key roles in getting Ghana where it was until 1957