Lawyer Bright Akwetey pick forms for CPP Flagbearer race

Mr. Bright Oblitei Akwetey, a Legal Practitioner, has picked and paid the nomination cost of GHc20,000.00 to contest for the Convention People's Party (CPP) Flagbearership position, which is provisionally planned for June 10th this year.

After collecting the nomination papers, Mr. Akwetey, a senior CPP member, told reporters that the party required a realistic Flagbearer to work with the party leadership to increase its fortunes in the 2024 elections.

"The CPP requires a Flagbearer who is dedicated, forward-thinking, disciplined, credible, and capable of radically transforming the current fragile party structures into a formidable, well-tuned election machinery," he said.

The CPP has approved prices for the flagbearership competition, which include GHc20,000.00 for nomination forms, GHc200,000.00 for filing fees, and GHc230.000.00 for grassroots mobilisation.

Nominations were opened from April 20 and would close on May 11, 2023, and vetting slated for May 12 and 13, 2023, with the National Executive Council meeting fixed for June 9, 2023.

The Presidential Delegates Congress of the party will be held on June 10, 2023, and its presidential candidates will be officially outdoor on June 12, 2023.

Mr. Akwetey believes the CPP need "a Flag Bearer capable of removing the credibility gap created in the media by acts of omission and commission by some leading members of the party in recent times, as well as helping to build a united, strong, vibrant, and attractive party."

Mr. Akwetey, a former Chief State Attorney in the Attorney General's Department, expressed hope that his candidature will create a window of opportunity for party faithful who have been hesitant to join in party activities to rethink.

"My candidature is a good omen and a golden opportunity for all Nkrumahists to join hands with him and the leadership at all levels to build a more disciplined party that is not based on individualistic ego."

"CPP is bigger than all of its members together...It will never succumb to any personality... the party is fundamental, with the potential to regain lost decades for Ghana's social development," Mr Akwetey stated.

Ghana, according to the former Assistant Special Public Prosecutor, needs the CPP to repair the country's shattered sovereignty and economy.

"Ghana requires a massive psychological transformation and sustained efforts aimed at decolonizing the minds of leaders in all areas of the national development agenda in order to create a united and prosperous Ghana."

"It is more important now than ever to put Nkrumah's three pillars of self-determination, social justice, and pan-Africanism into action." "It is more important than ever to demonstrate in the clearest possible terms that, after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs," Mr. Akwetey remarked.

As a result, he urged all well-meaning Ghanaians to join the CPP in order to bring the country's socioeconomic situation back on track.

He declared that he is prepared to lead the CPP to power, saying, "I am capable of marshalling a formidable force in the country with the ability to effectively shoulder with the flag bearers of the National Democratic Congress and the NPP."

Mr. Akwetey stated that he had critically examined the CPP during this time period and concluded that the party's inability to identify its core objectives, values, and ideologies had been its bane for unappealing performance since the 1992 elections.

To generate an electorate-friendly message, he claimed that the CPP would stress Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah's values as well as grass-roots membership mobilisation.