The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) on Thursday said it has withdrawn from the Nkrumaist Unity Talks for lack of commitment from the other parties.

In an interview, Mr Dan Lartey, GCPP Leader, said the three parties have demonstrated bad faith and adopted entrenched positions without due consideration of other interests and modern politics in the country.

"The Convention People's Party (CPP), People's National Convention (PNC) and the National Reform Party (NRP), partners in the talks, have undermined the basic foundation upon which to build common structures for unity," he said.

Mr Lartey said, "GCPP cannot be involved in talks with double faced partners, who pretend and show openly to be interested in uniting the Nkrumaist tradition for elections 2004, but clandestinely adopting strategies to propagate their personal agendas."

The four parties, which contested the 2000 general election and identify with the Nkrumaist tradition, adopted a common front to unite for future elections.

However, the talks have been characterised with accusations and counter accusations by members and low profile representation of some parties.

Mr Lartey claimed that the PNC and NRP officials attended the talks without the mandate of its members and questioned the seriousness and commitment of such parties towards unity.

He said the CPP Chairman have also never attended any of the Steering Committee meetings on the talks, even though, it was organised at the CPP headquarters but has been going round trying to reorganise its structures in the regions.

The GCPP leader noted that PNC and CPP in particular, have demonstrated that they were interested in developing and organising their regional, district and ward structures than the unity of the larger Nkrumaist tradition.

"The only option left for GCPP is to withdraw and re-focus to adopt strategies and programmes that would involve all leftist political parties to unite and wrest power from the rightist."

Mr Lartey stressed that "as the most senior member of the Nkrumaist tradition and leader of the great GCPP, I will draw all under the banner of domestication for leftist's electoral victory in 2004".

He said the concern of Nkrumaists must now be focused on the broader leftist unity and not traditions and dogmatic policies that people have lost confidence in, judging from the 2000 elections result.