{"id":241851,"date":"2016-08-22T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241851"},"modified":"2016-08-22T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:45:45","slug":"reject-npp-ndc-embrace-our-apam-foforo-cpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241851","title":{"rendered":"Reject NPP, NDC; Embrace our &#8216;Apam foforo&#8217; &#8211; CPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Convention People&#8217;s Party (CPP) has stated its resolve to deal with the fundamental challenges facing Ghana if given the mandate in this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party, its &#8216;Apam foforo&#8217; (New Covenant) ideology, presents the best source of reprieve to Ghana\u2019s descent into mismanagement by the NPP and the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jwprersQgeuDKikP4KKZ7mQeg88Q14bN&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Communications Director of the party, Abdul Rauf Kadr, said\u00a0\u201cWe feel strongly as a party that the NDC and the NPP have failed Ghanaians and because of that, a greater chunk of Ghanaians have lost interest in the political processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however stated that, the CPP&#8217;s message offering Ghanaians a new leadership covenant, is already resonating with the masses in the Brong Ahafo Region where their Flagbearer, Ivor Greenstreet, is currently on a campaign tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On that basis, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet has been traveling the length and breadth of the country meeting with groups, communities and villages explaining to them the essence of the \u2018Apam Foforo which means the new covenant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kadr explained that &#8220;the new covenant actually stems from our own Nkrumahist beliefs of self-determination, social justice and pan-Africanism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted further the fact that research <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/09\/7-of-10-citizens-say-ghana-is-heading-in-wrong-direction-survey\/\">has shown<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Ghanaians hold corruption, employment and the energy issues as key concerns ahead of the polls, adding that \u201cour message of Apam foforo has been styled in such a way that, it provides tactical responses and solutions to these key sectors of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convention People&#8217;s Party (CPP) has stated its resolve to deal with the fundamental challenges facing Ghana if given the mandate in this year\u2019s election. According to the party, its &#8216;Apam foforo&#8217; (New Covenant) ideology, presents the best source of reprieve to Ghana\u2019s descent into mismanagement by the NPP and the NDC. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jwprersQgeuDKikP4KKZ7mQeg88Q14bN&#8221;]Speaking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":185889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}