PPP Inaugurates National Headquarters

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has signalled its readiness as a formidable contestant in the December elections with the inauguration of a national headquarters building at Asylum Down in Accra.

The flag bearer of the PPP, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, accompanied by his wife, Yvonne; the National chairman, Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond; Ladi Nylander and Mike Eghan, both members of the party’s Advisory Council, cut the tape to officially open the building, after which it was dedicated by Rev. Fr. Patrick Agbeko of the Holy Spirit Cathedral.

The magnificent one-storey building, painted in white with the name of the party conspicuously written in red on the front view, will serve as the fulcrum of the party’s Election 2012 campaign.

The colourful but simple ceremony which took place Thursday, was attended by the Turkish Ambassador to Ghana, the national executive members and some aspiring parliamentary candidates of the party.

Beaming with excitement, some PPP faithful said the location of the headquarters in a prime area of Accra, just about 50 meters away from the national headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), also in Asylum Down, and about 400 metres away from the headquarters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) across the Ring Road in Kokomlemle means the PPP is ready to match the two main frontrunners in the December election ‘boot-for-boot’.

Mr Brew-Hammond invited the general public to compare the headquarters of the NDC, the NPP and the PPP to determine which of them offers hope for the future.

He said with the inauguration of the national office, “the PPP has reached a point where the Goliaths are afraid of it”.

For his part, Dr Nduom said the inauguration of the party’s national office “is clear that the PPP represents something new, decent, clean, peaceful and purposeful in Ghanaian politics”.

He said the PPP was unique because it was the only political party that was carrying to the people issues of how to unite the country, raise the quality of life of Ghanaians and solve problems confronting the nation without recourse to insults and disrespect.

“We are not inciting people to violent behaviour, yet aggressively organising and gaining strength from community to community”, he said.

“The PPP is the only party that has committed itself to demonstrating the competence of its leaders and to fight corruption, starting with leadership”.

Dr Nduom again challenged his competitors in the December election to climb to high moral grounds in respect of competent and incorruptible leadership.

He said good stewardship, quality education, job creation and good health were major pillars undergirding the PPP’s Agenda for Change, as it seeks the mandate of the electorate in the December polls.

Dr Nduom said the PPP’s quest for incorruptible leadership had been vindicated in a recent survey conducted by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), which indicated that voters were highly concerned about integrity, education, health and job creation.

He further noted that the party’s frowning on the ‘winner takes all’ political system, and advocacy for an all-inclusive government, had been endorsed in recent comments by the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at The Vatican, Peter Cardinal Appiah-Turkson and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission, Mr David Kanga.