PNC Ready For Talks With CPP But. . . — Ramadan

Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, National Chairman, People National Convention (PNC), has said the party would not boycott plans by the Nkrumaists to get to the negotiation table again on unification talks.

'What we say is that we are not happy about the way the regional executive of the Convention People's Party (CPP) in Brong Ahafo(B/A) are going about the unification process. They have joined with our (PNC) regional executives in Brong Ahafo in the bid to start the unity talk process, without first meeting the CPP national executive,' he stated.

‘’These attitudes derail plans for uniting the Nkrumist front and make the chances of coming together difficult’’ he observed.

Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan told the Daily Graphic in Sunyani that though he had been informed by the Brong Ahafo Regional Chairman of the PNC of the party’s engagement in talks with the CPP in the region, he (Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan) had asked the regional executives of the PNC to disassociate itself from the CPP.

'This is because the B/A regional executives of CPP have failed to inform the national executives of such an idea. I deem this a rehabilitation which no one must support. How can we(PNC) side with them when they have no regard for authority and have not made their plans known to CPP executives at the national level,' he contended.

Alhaji Ramadan noted: 'This action and attitude of coercing and stampeding the national executive into the unity process is not the right thing to do' and asked that things be done rightly.

He announced that the PNC was likely to go to national congress by 2011 and that major activities to be undertaken by the party would be decided and made public later. — GNA