A former Chairperson of the\u00a0Convection People\u2019s Party (CPP), who recently lost her bid to lead the party\u00a0into the November general elections, Samia Nkrumah, appears to have closed the door to the possibility of partnering the party’s Presidential Candidate, Ivor Greenstreet, saying she will instead choose to\u00a0represent the party in Parliament.<\/p>\n
In what many considered to be a shocking outcome in Saturday\u2019s Delegates Congress, Greenstreet fended off competition from Samia Nkrumah, daughter of the party’s Founder, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who was widely tipped to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”hZ3iBByBm1B1uKpcmt3YrPexkeUJmmLI”]Samia, who was defeated alongside\u00a0two others, has not taken it\u00a0lightly, accusing Greenstreet of vote-buying; a claim the former General Secretary has vehemently denied.<\/p>\n
Some have suggested that Samia could be selected to partner Greenstrteet as his running mate, but the former Jomoro MP, who according to Greenstreet has not called to congratulate him, has ruled out any such possibility.<\/p>\n
She has already made known her intentions to contest the Jomoro seat in the Western Region for the second time after\u00a0losing the seat in 2012.<\/p>\n
Although one would have thought that after losing a parliamentary seat, resigning as a Chairperson and now losing her bid to be a Presidential Candidate, accepting to be a running mate, would have been ideal.<\/p>\n
But in an interview with\u00a0Bernard Avle on ‘The Ghana Report’ on\u00a0Viasat One TV,\u00a0 Samia, who would not give a straightforward answer to the question of whether she would accept an offer to partner Greenstreet said,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think so. I think I can serve my party better as a parliamentary candidate in these elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m humble and I\u2019m modest and I feel I\u2019ve been a parliamentarian before and I think I can get more votes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
When quizzed further, Samia Nkrumah said it was up to Mr. Greenstreet to decide if she would join the presidential ticket as his running mate.<\/p>\n
According to her, \u201cWhatever we decide anyway, we decide as a party. Ivor has not asked me to so I don\u2019t think that is on the cards\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former Chairperson of the\u00a0Convection People\u2019s Party (CPP), who recently lost her bid to lead the party\u00a0into the November general elections, Samia Nkrumah, appears to have closed the door to the possibility of partnering the party’s Presidential Candidate, Ivor Greenstreet, saying she will instead choose to\u00a0represent the party in Parliament. In what many considered to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2647,2648,58,10,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n