Mr Bright Akwettey, an aspiring presidential candidate of the of the Convention Peoples party (CPP), has appealed to the electorate to give their mandate to the CPP to safeguard the country’s peace and orderly development.

He said this is because both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) seemed intent on plunging the country into chaos as a price for power.

Mr Akwettey, who was addressing some delegates from Ho and Hohoe who will be attending the Party’s May 12 Congress, said the current CPP had recovered its unity, strength, discipline and organizational character and ready to give Ghana a leadership of hope and purpose.

He said he and the CPP represented that new leadership which the country needed at this time and that on the contrary, both the NDC and the NPP by their recent conducts and pronouncements, had shown that they were at their wits end in solving the country’s problems.

He said Ghana had had enough with experiments under the governance of the two political parties and needed qualitative change in leadership that would assert the country’s political, social and economic sovereignty and cohesion similar to the first CPP government under late President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

Mr Akwettey said Ghana has been ruled on ad-hoc basis since the inception of the fourth republic leading to disillusion, dejection and poverty among the populace.

He said there was no reason why Ghanaians should not be enjoying a high standard of living given her rich natural resources which have been surrendered to foreign interests for pittances.

Mr Akwettey said the country’s Mineral Law for instance allowed foreigners to reap all the profits from the sector with Ghana taking only 10% of the profits.**