A letter by one Kofi Bamfo in the New Free Press Newspaper on a so called Nkrumah � Rawlings tradition makes interesting reading on both historical and ideological grounds.
It is not clear what the letter was supposed to add to our understanding and appreciation of current party developments in Ghana.
The party which currently bears the name Convention People�s Party (CPP) and which claims to be the truest and most genuine successor to the CPP which was banned in February 1966 is now permanently split between sympathizers of the National Democratic Congress on one hand and the New Patriotic Party on another hand.
Mr Bamfo clearly belongs to the second group. To add to the confusion, even though he is proud to claim the Limann heritage in 1979, he continues the deception by his silence on the Peoples National Convention (PNC) of Dr Limann and Dr Mahama is not a genuine claimant to the CPP title.
Just consider the immense energy, resources and time spent on the Law courts to reclaim the name CPP, and it must be clear to all objective observers that the name cannot be a viable vehicle for the prosecution of the political ideas of the politically nimble and dynamic Kwame Nkrumah.
In the period that this pointless legal struggle was going on, followers of Danquah-Busia had changed their names several times from the United Party to Progress Party, Popular Front Party, All Peoples Party and now the New Patriotic Party without any loss of ideological and historical consistency.
The over whelming number of Nkrumahists in the period have called themselves People�s National Party and the National Democratic Congress and have secured success at the polls without problems.
It is true that Founder of the NDC, former President Rawlings over threw the Nkrumahists PNP regime of Dr Limann, but all of us can bear witness to the undeniable fact that majority of the CPP today have joined the NDC.
Some of these pro CPP and NPP fail to confront this conundrum. The original CPP was also against the middle class in this country, yet it continued to win competitive election in the country.
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