Callers who phoned in to Citi Fm’s morning show program in Accra last Wednesday, to comment on TODAY newspaper’s lead story that was carried in the Monday, 25th January, 2010, and Tuesday, 26th editions, in which we reported the sudden demise of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s CPP, unanimously agreed that until drastic measures were taken, the CPP would still languish in political darkness.
Whilst some bluntly pointed out what was causing the CPP’s downfall, others strongly held the view that the limping CPP would only be an alternative in the election that would come up in 2062, an indication that the current crop of leaders in the party, who have in recent times exhibited gross incompetence, might have perhaps join our ancestors at the bosom of the Lord or with Satan in hell by then.
Although analysts and social commentators who commented on the story conceded that the CPP would have a long way to go if it intends to capture political power in this country.
But, what the microscopic eyes of TODAY garnered in its fact finding mission of the state of the CPP was completely different. Perhaps what the commentators who gave the CPP fifty years from now to win power were being generous in their submissions because the obvious truth is that the party would no longer be a vibrant and a credible political entity as it used to be in the 50s and 60s.
And suddenly for sympathizers and well wishers of the CPP, Mr George Opeisika Aggudey, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2004 election and Mr Ladi Nylander, the current National Chairman, who were on the program could not put across a strong argument regarding the true state of the CPP, except to hurriedly say “plans are advanced to undertake a serious membership drive soon.”
Mr Aggudey, otherwise known as a ‘political caricature’ instead of taking advantage to properly deal with the relevant issues in the said stories of the paper, chose to hurl innuendos at certain personalities that he sees as threat to his ailing political career. He could not garner courage to mention names anytime he was pushed to the wall by Bernard Avleh, the host of the program. Does this attitude not smacks of someone who is visionless?
And as Mr Aggudey constantly struggled to find meaningful answers to the questions of the young eloquent host, he pointed accusing fingers at some individuals for his abysmal and stinky performance in the 2004 election. And further went ahead to say that not even Jesus Christ can salvage the CPP from its current state, but rather boasted that he was the only person who could help resurrect the party in another breath. Oh! What a juvenile remark by a man who once upon a time asked Ghanaians to vote him as President.
“I can tell you that not even Jesus Christ can salvage the CPP as of now. One man, I single handedly paid for 175 offices for the party when I was the presidential candidate and as of now, I can tell you that I am the only person who can help the CPP to gain its rightful place in Ghanaian politics,” Mr Aggudey said in the interview.
There was no need for a soothsayer to deduce that the questions that came from the host after Mr Aggudey had uttered those words that he would have asked him to leave the studio with his hogwash if he had had his own way.
Mr Aggudey completely lost track and continued to expose himself in the course of the interview to the Ghanaian public that indeed he was not fit to be the Ghana’s chief executive of state.
For his part, Mr Nylander likewise Mr Aggudey could not give any one tangible step that has been taken to galvanize support to make the CPP a viable force in Ghana’s politics.
The stark truth still remains that Osagyefo’s CPP is no longer in existence, and with this high internal bickering among members there is no way Ghanaians can see the CPP as a serious political party ready to assume the reins of government.
