Return party’s assets - CPP urges govt

Daily Graphic Politics Feb - 25 - 2026 , 09:57 2 minutes read

The Convention People's Party (CPP) has reiterated its call for the state to return all assets it has confiscated from the party.

“Our assets, including buildings which were party offices and frozen party accounts, inter alia, were legitimately acquired by our forefathers, but were illegally seized,” it said.

In a statement signed by the General Secretary of the party, Kwame Nkrumah Botsio, to commemorate 60 years of Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s overthrow, the party expressed its gratitude to President John Dramani Mahama's government and the majority in Parliament for giving the CPP justice after all these years through the renaming of the airport in Accra.

Airport

It said the party had been worried and aggrieved that the country’s international airport was named after one of those who perpetuated a grievous cardinal sin against Ghana 60 years ago and described it as a bad example.

The government has changed the name from Kotoka International Airport to the Accra International Airport.

The statement urged all members who left the party due to grievances, as well as those suspended or expelled for breaching the Party's constitution, to rejoin the party.

“This is part of the party's strategy to rebuild, reconcile and reorganise the party,” it said.

Independence

It said Dr Nkrumah helped the country shed off every political micro-management by external forces through political independence on March 6, 1957.

It said that to attain economic independence, the CPP government and Dr Nkrumah embarked on full-scale industrialisation, during which about 450 factories produced made-in-Ghana products.

“This vision and progress were short-lived when a group of undisciplined soldiers took arms that were meant to protect the people of Ghana and weaponised them against law-abiding citizens who were perceived as loyalists of Dr Nkrumah,” it noted.