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Story: Tim Dzamboe, Dzodze

Some chiefs in the southern sector of the Volta Region have said that the rising credibility of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the present political landscape has the potential of convincing past members to rejoin the party.
According to the paramount chief of Dzodze, Togbui Adzofia V, many people were members of the CPP but the intervention of military regimes in the politics of the nation dismembered the party at Dzodze.
He, however, expressed the hope that with the present reorganisation of the party, members who had left may be able to rejoin the party to enhance the fortunes of the party in the next elections.
Togbui Adzofia said this when the presidential candidate of the party, Paa Kwesi Nduom, paid separate courtesy calls on chiefs in the Ketu North, Ketu South and Keta constituencies last Monday.
He advised the presidential candidate to take a critical look at the existing roads and the water situation wherever he would go, to guide him as to what to do for the people in case he won the election this December.
He advised the presidential aspirant to conduct a campaign that would promote friendship and that he should not divide the nation in the way the campaigns would be handled.
At Penyi, the paramount chief of the traditional area, Togbui Dadzi said the experiences of the CPP as an old political party should enable the party to know all the pitfalls and strive to win the elections.
At Aflao, the paramount chief, Togbui Amenya Fiti V, said the Aflao area was a CPP stronghold back in time, adding that if the party could work hard, it could reclaim its members.
He added that with the high calibre of presidential candidates who contested the flagbearership, it was evident that the spirit of Kwame Nkrumah had risen indeed.
Togbui Fiti advised all presidential candidates to conduct their campaigns in a peaceful manner without acrimony in order to sustain the peaceful environment created under the 16-year rule of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He said further that as the first presidential aspirant to visit Aflao, he was assured of the blessings of the Aflao state. He encouraged him not to be discouraged but visit the area again to foster unity with the people through his campaigns.
In his message to the chiefs and people, Paa Nduom said the CPP was back to life and would compete effectively to win, to make Ghanaians confident and happy in their own country.
He said no political party had beaten the CPP in the creation of jobs, adding that “if one party had come and gone, and one is preparing to leave, it is our time to come”, alluding to the eight years each of the NDC and the NPP in political power.
Paa Nduom also visited Keta and the Aflao border where he held closed-door discussions with a section of the senior staff of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and of theCustoms, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS).