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Convention People's Party

Type: Organization

Name: Convention People's Party (Convention People s Party, CPP)

Nationality: Ghana

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Convention People's Party

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Turmoil Over Azorka’s Post

Alhaji Ibrahim MobilaThe race for the chairmanship position of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Northern Region is creating tension among the various interest groups in the party.Though interested parties have not openly declared their ... [Published Daily Guide Ghana - May 21 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Tamale, Haruna Iddrisu, Electoral College, Incompetence

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Otumfuo Goes Wild On Politicians

Otumfuo Osei Tutu delivering the lectureThe Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has observed with great concern that the overly and obsessive politicization of all national discourse which is fuelled by the media is too dangerous for the country’s fledgling ... [Published Daily Guide Ghana - May 20 2013]

Entities: Democracy, John Rawlings, Convention People's Party

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Tension in Nkroful as Nkrumah’s birthpla

The birthplace of Ghana’s first president, Nkroful, is said to be under threat of “obliteration” by the activities of small scale miners.Reports are that Adamus Resources, a mining company, has acquired concessions in the Ellembelle District of the Western ... [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 17 2013]

Entities: Kwame Nkrumah, Adamus Resources Ltd, Convention People's Party

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The NDC’S Kumbungu Dirge

E-mail: amoatec27@yahoo.comThe fact is that the National Democratic Party (NDC) has lost its Kumbungu monarchy to the Convention People’s Party (CPP). Records show that the CPP has done badly in Ghana’s modern elections. It is clear why the party is making ... [Published Ghanaian Chronicle - May 14 2013]

Entities: National Democratic Congress (Ghana), Convention People's Party, Elections, Ghana, Mohammed Mumuni

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Convention People's Party

CPP’s Yahaya to lobby for investments fo

Newly-elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kumbungu Constituency Moses Amadu Yahaya admits that lobbying is his strength and he will capitalize on that to draw more investors into the constituency.“I have been lobbying for many years so I don’t think ... [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 10 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Construction

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

CPP’s Amadu Yahaya to work in the spirit

Newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu Constituency Amadu Moses Yahaya is expected to work within his party’s ideology.“We expect to see him work in the spirit and letter of the party's ideology and be guided by the will of the people in ... [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 06 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Ghana, Elections

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

National Democratic Congress (Ghana)

10 Facts about the CPP Kumbungu victory

Fact One: The candidate himself is a relevant social force in the region, more than the government of Ghana, he has single handedly helped in providing social housing, street lights, schools and the building of more than 86 boreholes for Kumbungu and ... [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, National Democratic Congress (Ghana), Elections, General Election, Leadership

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Mahama is winner of 2012 Presidential Election

Ghana News pluginsPresident John Dramani Mahama, presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is the winner of the 2012 presidential electionPresident John Dramani Mahama, presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress ... [Published Graphic Ghana - May 02 2013]

Entities: John Dramani Mahama, National Democratic Congress (Ghana), Convention People's Party, Elections

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 7 reports

Loss of Kumbungu Constituency is warning to Mahama – Kwesi Pratt

The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper has attributed the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate in the Kumbungu parliamentary by-election on Tuesday, to the failure of government and the governing party to read the signs on ... [Published GhanaHomePage - May 02 2013]

Entities: Kwesi Pratt, National Democratic Congress (Ghana), Convention People's Party

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

CPP wins Kumbungu seat

The Convention People’s Party candidate has won the Kunbumgu bye-election.Mr Amadu Moses Yahaya polled 13,029 to beat his closest contender, Alhaji Imoro Yakubu Kakpagu of the NDC who polled a little over 11,000 votes.The Kumbugu seat became vacant after ... [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Mohammed Mumuni, Economic Community of W. African States

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

CPP Ready To Take Kumbungu Seat

WITH THE main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) withdrawing from the Kumbungu Parliamentary by-election, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), obviously seems the favourite, but the Convention People’s Party (CPP) insists it is rather poised ... [Published Ghanaian Chronicle - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Mohammed Mumuni, First To File, New Patriotic Party (GH)

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

CPP appeals to GMA to end strike

The Convention People’s Party (CPP), has express concern about the escalating strike by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), as it has a direct impact on the sick and poor who may not be able to afford private medical care.The CPP, therefore, pleaded ... [Published GhanaHomePage - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Convention People's Party, Ghana, Escalation, Fair Wage

Quotes

"We have to blame ourselves because we were a bit complacent; even National Executive Committee (NEC) thought that it was a done deal for us" he added

Complacency to blame for Kumbungu defeat - NDC [Published GhanaHomePage - May 02 2013]

...of the organization is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics" , is still relevant today in a world of globalization and entrenched exploitation

CPP welcomes Ahmadinejad visit [Published GhanaHomePage - Apr 18 2013]

...The CPP is also committed to social justice and of the conviction that "you cannot have a nation that is half marginalised and half affluent" . The party believes that the state must ensure that all people are given equal opportunity to develop themselves before any tribal considerations...

Fact Sheet for Convention People's Party [Published Able2Act - Jan 15 2009]

More Content

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Turmoil Over Azorka’s Post [Published Daily Guide Ghana - May 21 2013]
Otumfuo Goes Wild On Politicians [Published Daily Guide Ghana - May 20 2013]
Tension in Nkroful as Nkrumah’s birthpla [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 17 2013]
Vodafone sale: Finance Minister complies with c... [Published GhanaHomePage - May 15 2013]
Kumbungu MP Promises To Transform Constituency [Published Ghanaian Chronicle - May 14 2013]
The NDC’S Kumbungu Dirge [Published Ghanaian Chronicle - May 14 2013]
Engage in wide consultation for dev - Parties told [Published Graphic Ghana - May 13 2013]
Businessman Alfred Woyome is paranoid - CPP Vic... [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 13 2013]
CPP’s Yahaya to lobby for investments fo [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 10 2013]
Nkrumaists must not live in self deception - Wa... [Published Graphic Ghana - May 08 2013]
Development of appropriate policies needed to s... [Published VibeGhana.com - May 07 2013]
CPP’s Amadu Yahaya to work in the spirit [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 06 2013]
10 Facts about the CPP Kumbungu victory [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 04 2013]
Sekou’s absence in CPP is no problem - Samia [Published GhanaHomePage - May 04 2013]
Kumbungu MP-elect offers new future for constit... [Published Graphic Ghana - May 03 2013]
Complacency to blame for Kumbungu defeat - NDC ... [Published Graphic Ghana - May 03 2013]
Mahama is winner of 2012 Presidential Election [Published Graphic Ghana - May 02 2013]
Pro-NDC group questions NPP’s democratic [Published Tv3.com.gh - May 02 2013]
Loss of Kumbungu Constituency is warning to Mah... [Published GhanaHomePage - May 02 2013]
NDC's loss of Kumbungu seat is warning to Maham... [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 02 2013]
Why NDC lost Kumbungu seat [Published Graphic Ghana - May 02 2013]
Complacency to blame for Kumbungu defeat - NDC [Published GhanaHomePage - May 02 2013]
Complacency to blame for Kumbungu defeat - NDC ... [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 01 2013]
CPP to consolidate Parliamentary seats [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 01 2013]
Low Turnout At Kumbungu By-Election [Published Daily Guide Ghana - May 01 2013]
CPP wins Kumbungu seat [Published Myjoyonline.com - May 01 2013]
Kumbungu by-election starts Tuesday amid tight ... [Published Myjoyonline.com - Apr 30 2013]
CPP Ready To Take Kumbungu Seat [Published Ghanaian Chronicle - Apr 29 2013]
All set for Kumbungu by-election [Published Citifmonline - Apr 28 2013]
Don't allow ethnicity to undermine national coh... [Published Ghana News Agency - Apr 28 2013]

Blogs

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Race politics in Ghana [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Jan 18 2013] Jemima Pierre, professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, has written an ambitious book in The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (University of Chicago Press 2012). She engages Ghanaian and African diasporan ...
Six lessons from Ghana’s 2012 elections [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Dec 11 2012] Ghana held its sixth consecutive democratic elections since its democratic transition in 2000 this past weekend and once again has earned its reputation as a stable and thriving democracy, in spite of predictable cries of fraud by the losers, the ...