Convention Peoples Party, Ghana

Preamble

WE THE ACCREDITED DELEGATES OF THE CONVENTION PEOPLE’S PARTY (CPP) ASSEMBLED AT THE FIRST NATIONAL PARTY CONGRESS,

RECALLING
that the democratically elected Government of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) under our illustrious Leader Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown through a coup d’etat in 1966 and the CPP was subsequently proscribed, and that again in 1981, the democratically elected Government of the People’s National Party (PNP) a successor Party of the Convention People’s Party, was also overthrown through a coup d’etat and the PNP was subsequently proscribed;

CONSCIOUS
that there is an overwhelming desire of the three Nkrumaist Parties of People’s Convention Party (PCP), the National Convention Party (NCP) and the People’s National Convention (PNC) to regroup and unite the fragmented front of the Nkrumah Political Family in order to pursue the teachings, ideas, philosophy and vision of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and build a strong, disciplined and dynamic political party for national reconstruction and eradication of poverty, elitism, inequality, corruption and other social injustices from the Ghanaian society;

DETERMINED
to ensure that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s “vision of a Ghana socially stable and united, politically independent and economically free and prosperous” shall be kept alive and followed to its full realisation;

COMMITTED
to uphold and adhere to Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s precept that “now that we have achieved our political freedom, we must consolidate our independence by building a solid foundation that will establish in Ghana the highest standards of honesty and integrity both in our public and private lives” and

RESOLVED
to achieve these and other Nkrumaist objectives, our two Nkrumaist parties, the People’s Convention Party (PCP) and the National Convention Party (NCP), a great number of comrades of the People’s National Convention, the Council of Elders as well as other Nkrumaist Organisations have well and truly regrouped and merged to constitute one formidable and invincible Nkrumaist party in reaffirmation and fulfilment of the historic UNITY ACCORD signed by the accredited representatives of the People’s Convention Party, the National Convention Party, the People’s National Convention and the Supreme Council of Elders of Nkrumah Political Family at Accra on the 16th day of October, 1997,

DO HEREBY SOLEMNLY PROCLAIM, ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES, OUR PARTY AND ALL ITS MEMBERS THIS CONSTITUTION ON THE TENTH DAY OF JULY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE.