Accra, Sept. 21, GNA – The Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) has enjoined Ghanaians to observe 2016 Founders day with sobriety as the nation prepares for the December 7 polls.
Professor Edmund N. Delle CPP Chairman gave the suggestion in an interview with the Ghana News Agency to mark the 107 birthday of the Founder of the Party and nation Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
The Party is observing the day on the general theme: “Solid vanguard to meet the needs of Ghanaians.”
Prof Delle said: "We need to reconstruct the vanguard that would lead to the attainment of Nkrumah's ideals and transformation of the country, under the new covenant.
He said the CPP have a duty to win Election 2016 to liberate all oppressed people in Ghana, as championed in 1950s across Africa and the world by Dr Nkrumah whose role in the attainment of political independence cannot be overlooked.
He therefore charged the current crop of CPP leaders across the country to provide a vanguard to protect the physical development of Ghana.
Prof Delle said the people's welfare was supreme in Nkrumah's human ideology, placed the human being at the centre and African unity and integration of its markets at the core of development.
Dr Nkrumah became the first President and first Prime Minister of the Republic. Furthermore, he was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity. 21st September, the birthday of Dr Nkrumah, has been declared a public holiday, to immortalise his memory.
Prof Delle noted that it was the vision of the first President to reach this height, not only for Ghana, but for the whole of Africa.
He quoted the famous statement of Nkrumah: “The independence of Ghana is meaningless, unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
Today, this dream has become true; all African countries are free from colonial rule.
He pointed out that the continent now is indeed politically liberated, but still far away from the dream of Nkrumah of being united.
He claimed that we need to “take down the artificial borders that divide us”, to advance economic co-operation, free trade and free movement between the countries.
He emphasised that Africa as “one continent with one destiny” has to find solutions for development on its own.
He called Nkrumah “not only a leader of Ghana, but indeed, a leader of all the people of Africa,” and “a base for the total liberation of our continent”.
But, he also reminded that the continent is still far away from liberation of poverty, of underdevelopment and of backwardness.
To achieve this, he inspired the people to: “The slogan Africa must unite must continue to resound in our ears.”
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