Mr Bright Oblitei Akwetey, an Accra-based legal practitioner and leading member of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has declared his intention to contest the flag bearer slot of the party for Elections 2016.
Mr Akwetey told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that he is ready to lead the CPP to wrest power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said: �I am capable of marshalling a formidable force in the country with the ability to shoulder effectively with the flag bearers of the National Democratic Congress, President John Dramani Mahama, and New Patriotic Party�s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.�
Mr Akwetey, who once investigated and prosecuted economic crimes in Ghana and The Gambia, says he had over the period critically examined the CPP and deduced that the party�s inability to identify its core objectives, values and ideologies served as its bane for unappealing performance since the 1992 elections.
He said the CPP would dwell on Kwame Nkrumah�s ideologies as well as grass-roots membership mobilisation and craft a message that would appeal to the electorate.
Mr Akwetey explained that CPP�s continuous stay in the political backwoods was due to a loss of focus and direction and divisive ideas in the leadership front, adding: �I have what it takes to repackage the CPP into a viable national political institution to fight in the 2016 elections and take over the reigns of government in the country.�
He said: �Ghana needs a president who has demonstrably shown the courage and audacity to fight corruption, because the time for lip service to fight the canker is over, and Mr Akwetey, a former State Attorney, has what it takes to do that for Ghanaians�.
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