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30.05.2012 CPP

Nduom Not Mole Says Leading CPP Member

By Andy Quao - Daily Graphic
Nduom Not Mole Says Leading CPP Member
30.05.2012 LISTEN

A leading member of the Convention People’s Party, Dr Opoku Aidoo, has debunked the pervasive feeling among some members of his party that its former presidential candidate, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, was a mole and described the description as unfortunate.

He argued that the modus operandi of a mole is simply to stay quietly in a group and leak vital information to a perceived opponent while appearing loyal and committed to the goals and aspirations of the group and also ensuring that he maintains his membership of the group and not quit at the least provocation.

In an apparent reaction to an assertion by another leading member of the party, Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, who recently described Dr Nduom as a mole in the CPP and whose actions undermined the aspirations of the party in the past, Aidoo, also a senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, said the actions of Nduom did not fit the description of a mole.

He asserts; “The posturing of Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, now the presidential candidate of the Progressive Peoples Party is at variance with the description of a mole”, arguing further that a mole will prefer to remain quite in a system and operate to undermine the collective interest of the group.

“A mole, as we all know, has an overriding interest and motivation that compels him to stay in a group and work to undermine it in the interest of others outside the group. Such a character will not be in a hurry to quit like the way Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom left to form the Progressive Peoples Party,” he added.

In his view, CPPs problem with Dr Nduom might be due to his huge personal ambitions which have sometimes contradicted with party goals and aspirations. He said it was the case of an inability to manage the ambition of a person to bring it in tandem with the larger interest of the group.

But this situation, he said, was not peculiar to the CPP of contemporary times, but even the so called bigger parties like the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have always had to contend with personalities who have huge personal ambitions. He added that the likes of Dr Ekow Spio Garbrah, Dr Obed Asamoah and lately Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings were classic examples of personalities within the NDC whose posture had appeared to the general public as contrary to the goals of the party, just as Nana Akufo Addo and Alan Kyeremanten in the 1998 and 2008 presidential primaries of the NPP.

“Of course such personalities are not moles. In the same way, one cannot describe Nduom as one. Indeed some of them are committed party members like any ordinary member of the party but the only difference is that they have bigger aspirations,” he added.

Dr Aidoo, who was also the party’s parliamentary candidate for the Lower Denkyira constituency in the Central Region in the 2004 and 2008 elections, urged the party hierarchy not to concentrate its energy on Paa Kwesi Nduom but rather focus on the upcoming elections. He added that there were bright prospects for the CPP to improve upon its poor showing in the previous elections.

He said the CPP has always presented a better alternative as opposed to the dominant NDC and NPP whose policies have not resolved the developmental challenges of the nation and the aspirations of Ghanaians which has left many of them frustrated.

'What is left for us is to vigorously sell this alternative that put the state at the centre of all our development policies to create a sustainable egalitarian society for Ghanaians, but much will depend on how we are able to carry the fight to the constituencies,' he stated.


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