GCPP for Kumasi Congress on Feb 24

Page 14, Jan 5, 2008
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

THE Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) is to hold its national delegates congress at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on February 24 to elect its flag bearer for the 2008 elections.
The congress will also be used to elect 12 officers, including the national chairman to run the party.
The leader of the party, Mr Dan Lartey, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that already the party had began its regional delegates conferences to elect its regional executive.
He said the party would also elect 230 parliamentary candidates to contest the 2008 general elections.
Mr Lartey said the Volta Regional branch of the party held its delegates conference last month during which its regional executives were elected.
“Between now and February 24 when the national congress would be held, all the 10 regions will hold their conferences to elect the party’s regional officers”, he said.
While the Northern Region branch would hold its conference on January 12, 2008, it would be the turn of Upper West a week after.
Asked why the party would hold its national congress in Kumasi and not in Accra, Mr Lartey said the party was a broad based one and, therefore needed to let its presence be felt in all the regions,
“We feel we need to move out of Accra, this time to let Ghanaians know how we are poised to win upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections”, he explained.
According to Mr Dan Lartey, he had already filed his nomination to contest the party’s presidential slot.
“I am not aware if anybody has filed his nomination to contest me”, he said, adding that it is only the party’s general secretary who would be able to tell the number of people who have shown interest in the various positions during the congress.
Mr Lartey said that the GCPP had men capable of implementing sound economic policies to enable the country harness its economic potential for the betterment of the people.
Ghanaians would see a different GCPP that will emerge from the Kumasi congress to battle the other political parties for every available political space in the country.