He described as ironical the situation in which leading functionaries of the CPP were clamouring for national executive positions while the party’s structures were not in the best shape.
Commenting on the state of affairs within the party in Accra yesterday, Mr Aggudey pointed out that rebuilding the party’s structures would facilitate the mobilisation of members and enhance its chances of winning the next general election.
He said considering the present state of the party’s structures which were at the point of collapse, it would be in the best interest of personalities jockeying for positions to find the most appropriate ways of “breathing life into the dehydrated structures.”
According to Mr Aggudey who is also the CPP’s Shadow Minister for the Interior, “the structures of the party which seemed emaciated need to be hydrated to perform their noble objective of serving as a platform for the mobilisation of supporters for the party.”
“We must campaign on the position of strength based on the extent to which the party has revived its structures, acknowledging existing members and new ones we have encouraged to join our front,” he said.
The CPP Shadow Minister for the Interior further emphasised that the re-organisation was paramount to the success of the party in the 2012 and future election.
“It is primarily through reorganisation that the party would also be able to identify new talents, recruit and train them to educate the electorate on what the CPP stands and thereby attract them into our fold.”
Mr Aggudey said it was very critical for the CPP to revive all its offices in the 230 constituencies, equip them with machines such as computers and other gadgets to collect and store data of party members and daily activities.
“How can we assess the position of the party in terms of our membership across the country if we lack offices with equipment and are unable to recruit the right calibre of people to gather data which would help the CPP leadership formulate data for the next presidential and parliamentary election.
The Election 2004 flag bearer of the CPP, therefore, called on the leading members of the party to rethink their position of campaigning to be elected to national executive positions before the revival of what he described as moribund structures dotting the breadth and length of the country.”
“We must not put the cart before the horse. The party big shots should find ways of making the structures virile for the next poll,” he said.sssssssss
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