According to him, the two parties continue to deceive the electorate in the region to vote for them by distributing freebies including outboard motors and fishing nets two months ahead of the December election.

[contextly_sidebar id=”yWwuMqmIkM21f1hDiRXVcCZJY2Oro8Ci”]Addressing residents at a rally at Anomabo in the Central Region yesterday [Thursday], Mr Greenstreet said although the parties are aware of the developmental challenges of the people, they have failed to address them over the last two decades.

“For 24 years since 1992, have you seen any change here? and you are in a fishing community. How much does a cold store cost? It is not expensive. And every 4 years they come to you back-door with the money, outboard motors, T-shirts, fishing nets, the promises and lies,” he said.

He called on the people in the area to reject the NDC and the NPP and vote massively for the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to bring progress and development to the area.

Mr Greenstreet also accused the two leading parties of sanctioning illegal fishing activities on Ghana’s seas which is affecting fishing activities of locals.

He said the two parties did not have the concern of the people in the area at heart.

Mr Greenstreet is currently on a campaign tour of Central Region to canvas votes ahead of this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections in December.

He is in the company of the CPP’s National Chairman, Professor Edmund N. Delle, Vice Presidential nominee of the Party, Nana Gabby Nketia, the first Vice Chairman Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim, and a host of other rank and file members of the Party.

‘CPP nomination forms accepted’

The Electoral Commission (EC) last week accepted the nomination forms of the Convention People’s Party and cleared it to contest in the upcoming elections. 13 presidential candidates were disqualified by the EC after their nomination forms were found to have been improperly filled.

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The Youth League say the nominee’s recent confession that he was a card-bearing member of the New Patriotic Party undermines the party’s credibility and puts his loyalty to the CPP in doubt.

Secretary to the League, Hardi Yakubu told Citi News, Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketia’s confession is an insult to the party.

“We are quite baffled about how a card-bearing member of another party will be a Vice Presidential candidate our party. We don’t think that is proper. We are asking that he should renounce his membership of the NPP and fully join the CPP or he should be withdrawn immediately,” Hardi said.

He added that “we do not see the reason why we would stoop so low to as to go and get a member of another political party who is so proud to announce his card-bearing membership of that political party to come and become our running mate. We think it is an insult to the rank and file of the party,” he added.

Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah who was a former adviser to ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor said in an interview on GhoneTV that even though he has agreed to become the CPP’s vice presidential nominee, he is still a card bearing member of the NPP.

The retired diplomat also said he sees nothing wrong with still being a member of the biggest opposition party and being the running mate for the CPP flagbearer.

He is quoted to have said, “Few years ago some NPP leaders including myself and former President Kufuor went to the house of the late Mr. Arkaah to be our running mate and he agreed to do it even though he was not a member of the NPP, so there is nothing wrong with it.”

‘CPP chooses Gabby Nketia as running mate’

The Convention People’s Party, (CPP), last week settled on a businessman, Nana Gabby Nketia as the running mate to its presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet for the December elections.

Mr.  Nketia, a politician and a businessman, has worked with both the Ghana Armed Forces and the British Army, and is expected to complement the efforts of Mr. Greenstreet, with his international influence to help enhance the party’s chances of winning the elections.

The Communications Director of the CPP, Kadir Abdul Rauf Issifu, who confirmed the decision to Citi News said, “The party settled on him because of his level of exposure and maturity. He is an engineer by profession and he has also been working with the Ghana Armed Forces and the British Army so the party is very hopeful that this duo will lead the process of the new political and economic order in the country.”

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