PPP INAUGURATED IN C/R

by Benjamin Price (Projects Abroad)

Youth holding the PPP flag.

The newly formed Progressive People’s Party (PPP), which has yet to be certified by the Electoral Commission, has held its inauguration ceremony.

After resigning from his position as a member of the Conventional People’s Party (CPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, the founder of the Progessive People’s Party, and executives from all the 19 constituencies of the region were inaugurated into the PPP with the regional executives.

Supporters pledge allegiance to the party.

A large crowd of enthusiastic Ghanaians attended the inauguration ceremony at Cape Coast’s Town Hall on Saturday (January 7^th) to show their support for Dr. Nduom and his party, which includes a 450 member-strong executive at present. These executives are responsible for the running of the party’s activities at the regional and constituency level in Central Region.

Back in December, the leader of the CCP’s women’s wing, Mary Ankomah, was recorded saying that it is a great loss for the CCP to lose a member like Dr. Ndoum. However, at the time she also highlighted that it would seem as though many women members would also defect from the CCP to join the Progressives.

Dr. Nduom told his supporters who gathered at Cape Coast Town Hall that the PPP, Ghana’s newest political party, would improve the livelihood of the citizens of Central Region.

Inaugurating the 20-member Central Regional Executive, Dr. Nduom said:

“Ours is a broad-based national movement with people who have been crying for the change we need after experiencing NDC and NPP administrations that have not delivered to their expectations.”

Dr Nduom (left centre) and PPP interim executives.

According to the party’s leader, an important principle of the PPP is inclusiveness. He stated that this progressive political organisation supports opportunity for all Ghanaians irrespective of ethnicity, religious affiliation or political affiliation.

Many other executives of the PPP also spoke at the inauguration ceremony, including the Interim Chairman of the progressive movement, Mr Nii Brew Hammond. Mr Hammond emphasised the need for unity across the new party and to ensure complete organisation at the polling station level.