A former General Secretary of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), Mr. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has been elected as the party’s flagbearer for the 2016 national elections.
CPP Flag bearer 2016
Mr. Greenstreet won in 3 of the 4 pulling stations at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre where the elections took place. The elected flag bearer, a lawyer by profession beat 3 other contenders including Samia Yaba Nkrumah was was highly tipped to win.
Certified results by Electoral Commission (EC) officials had Mr Greenstreet leading with 1, 288 votes, representing 64.2% of valid votes cast, while his closest contender Samia Nkrumah had 579 votes.
The other contestants, Mr. Joseph Agyapong and Mr. Bright Akwetey obtained 83 and 42 votes respectively.
About two thousand delegates of the party from the ten regions of Ghana came together to select a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential polls.
The party has also made amendments to its constitution:
That the National Youth Organiser slot of the party will now be elected at the National Delegates’ Congress along with other high profile positions such as the presidential candidate. In the past the CPP held a separate polls to elect the party’s National Youth Organiser and another to elect a flagbearer.
The partys Congress resolved that members of the party who wish to contest the flagbearership position in the future would have to be members of the party for five years in good standing. In the past Presidential aspirants needed to be party members for 4 years to qualifying to contest.
The party also resolved to unite with other Nkrumaist parties, notably the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC). This amendment, according to the National Chair of the party Mr. Edmund Dele, would be closed in April this year.
Meanwhile the elected flag bearer who moves with the aid of a wheel chair after surviving a near fatal accident has promised to work to unite all party member and attract others to join the party for a win in the upcoming elections.
Gyasi Appiah
