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Ivor Greenstreet to run for CPP flagbearer position

Greenstreet faces competition from two others in the race to become the CPP’s presidential candidate in the 7 December elections

Ivor Greenstreet has announced that he is seeking to lead the Convention People’s Party (CPP) for the second consecutive time, having run in the 2016 polls as the party’s presidential candidate.

The CPP has opened nominations for candidates and three people have already picked up application forms.

The three are the long-serving stalwart Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, the legal practitioner Bright Akwetey and Dr Divine Ayivor.

Aside from the race for the flagbearer, the party is also preparing to elect parliamentary candidates for the various constituencies.

The acting national chairman of the CPP, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim Haruna, said the party has everything in place to fight the 2020 elections. She said both presidential and parliamentary candidates are ready for the 7 December polls.

“In progress”

“With regard to the flagbearer race, we have three people contesting. We have Ivor Greenstreet, our 2016 presidential candidate, Dr Divine Ayivor, a pastor of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church who has resigned to contest on the ticket of CPP, and Bright Akwetey. So we are all ready for the 2020 polls,” she told Citi News.

Hajia Hamadatu said the CPP is still welcoming people who wish to run for Parliament on the party’s ticket.

“We are electing the flagbearer and the national officers at the same time and we have told constituency executives long before we even went to court to start identifying people who are interested in contesting as parliamentary candidates on the ticket of the party. 

“So everything is in progress and at the end of the congress, we will know exactly the persons interested in contesting on the party’s ticket,” she said.

Postponement of congress

The acting national chairman also announced that the party’s congress has been rescheduled due to the Homowo celebrations in Accra.

The CPP had originally planned to hold its congress on 15 August 2020 but the event has now been postponed to 22 August. 

The CPP used to be the third-largest political party in Ghana but has been overtaken by the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) in recent years.

The reduction in influence came after Papa Kwesi Nduom, a well-known CPP stalwart, broke away in 2012 to form the PPP. 

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