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General news for Monday, September 21, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-09-21
The late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Emotions swept over the Kwame Nkrumah memorial mausoleum in Accra on Monday, as leaders of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) tearfully prayed for absolution at their ancestor’s grave on its 111th anniversary.
Mr. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, CPP Presidential Candidate, CPP Presidency Leader Nana Akosua Sarpong Kumankumah, First Vice President and Nkrumah’s son Onzy Nkrumah, and General Secretary Nana Yaa Jantuah, elders and faithful of the party gathered around the tombstone at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra to pay tribute.
After the President and Leader led the procession to the grave, she led the celebrant to lay out the flowers she distributed and invoked the spirit of self-denial and dedication exhibited by the founding president of Ghana, urging everyone to follow that commitment to bring victory. to the party in the next general elections.
She said that a vote for the two main parties, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is a wasted vote, as the two had put on a bad show in the 28 years of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
Only when you vote for the CPP have you voted for yourself to make sure the CPP brings the accelerated development needed to Ghanaians, he said.
The CPP’s standard bearer, Ivor Greenstreet, warned the two main parties that the CPP would give them epileptic shock in the next election.
Then the celebrators sang Happy Birthday to the first president and prime minister of Ghana, and then they sang party songs such as “There is victory for us in the name of the CPP”, “Forward forever, backward never”.
Nana Jantuah’s prayer recognized the wrongs committed against Nkrumah and declared that “everything we did, we did not know. So forgive us. “
He then admitted that for the CPP, September 21, was still Founder’s Day, a change from the title of Founder’s Day to Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, by the current political Administration, that Kwame Nkrumah was not the only Founder. from Ghana.
This was followed by a warm hug between the president of the CPP and the secretary general.
Earlier, a ceremony was held in the park, addressed by prominent party members, including the Standard Bearer, urging the Ghanaian electorate to mandate the CPP to improve the lot of Ghanaians.
“A vote for NDC r NPP is a wasted vote,” the speakers said, adding, “but a vote for CPP is a vote for oneself. “
The government declared Monday, September 21, 2020, a public holiday to commemorate Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day in Ghana.
This holiday commemorates the birthday of Ghana’s main independence leader, first prime minister and first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
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