Samia Nkrumah storms Talensi to campaign for PNC
The Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Madam Samia Yaba Nkrumah, has endorsed the Parliamentary candidate of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr Michael Wumbego, ahead of the Talensi by-election scheduled for July 7, 2015.
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She has, therefore, entreated the people of Talensi to vote massively for Dr Wumbego as the constituency gets set to elect a new member of Parliament (MP) to replace Robert Mosore, who has been enskinned chief of the Talensi Traditional Area.
The CPP chair was on a three-day campaign tour of the Talensi Constituency last week to campaign for the parliamentary candidate of the PNC.
She was accompanied by the PNC candidate and executives of both CPP and PNC.
Addressing supporters of the CPP and the PNC at a rally at Yameriga in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region, Madam Nkrumah said both parties had decided to present one candidate from the PNC.
"This election of July 7 is going to be a special one because we are happy at this time when the Nkrumaist parties are coming together to present one party to the people of Talensi and the most beautiful thing about this unity is that we are supporting one candidate."
She added that God willing both the CPP and the PNC would have one candidate in every constituency in 2016 and impressed on the people of Talensi to show the way and show that Ghana could work again with a united Nkrumaist party.
She called on the electorate to vote for Dr Wumbego, who she described as an honest and sincere man and ready to serve his constituency and the country.
"Dr Wumbego is a good man; he is an honest man. He is a follower of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, he is a man who wants to serve his country and he wants to serve his people with honesty, with sincerity," she emphasised.
Madam Samia said Ghana today needed politicians who were willing to sacrifice and who were willing to go to the people and listen to them.
She said should the PNC candidate be elected as the MP for the area, he would use their Common Fund wisely and would not waste their resources, adding that he would listen to them, take their advice and be guided by principles.
She said honest politicians were guided by a vision and their vision for Ghana was the same as that of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
She indicated that they were followers of Dr Nkrumah who wanted to make Ghana a great, strong and a productive nation.
Dr Wumbego
Dr Wumbego said the need to serve his people was his motivating force to become their MP.
He said because of leadership problems, the district, which was created more than 10 years ago, could not boast any meaningful infrastructure.
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He said the road network in the district was not good and educational and health facilities were inadequate. He gave an assurance that he would reverse that when elected as the MP for the area.
Background
The two parties, despite coming from the same stock, have, for years, gone into elections with different presidential candidates as well as parliamentary candidates.
There have been talks for the two parties to present a united third force to challenge the duopoly of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party but these talks had in times past broken down at the last hour.
With the two parties presenting a united front in the Talensi elections, it remains to be seen if same will be done in the 2016 elections.