Accra, April 23, GNA - A Communications Consultant and Former Public Affairs Officer of National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council (NAPRM-GC), Mr William K. Dowokpor, has been elected the CPP Parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency. Mr Dowokpor polled 24 votes at a constituency delegates' conference over the weekend to become the Party's candidate for the December 7, 2008 elections.

He beat Mr John Philip Acquah, a business executive who polled 11 votes.

In his victory address, Mr Dowokpor said he was running for Parliament to provide a good "representative leadership" that the four previous Parliamentarians since 1992 had denied the constituency. He said Ghana needed new visionary leaders to take her from the Third World to the First World after 51 years of groping in the dark. "I am responding to the call by Mother Ghana for her children to envision Ghana as a first world country again, just as Dr Nkrumah and the CPP did with numerous examples dotted around the country." Mr Dowokpor, outlining his vision for the constituency, promised to bring "change that all the constituents can feel" through advocating for reliability in the provision of public and utility services for the constituency and the country as a whole.

He assured the youth of Ghana and the constituency that he would champion the rejuvenation of the nationalistic spirit of the Ghanaian youth for restoration as viable future leaders of Ghana and the world. Mr Dowokpor described as hypocritical, the constant reference to the youth as future leaders without a realistic national youth policy to help them develop their full potentials, regardless of background and political affiliation.

The CPP candidate said he had been consulting opinion leaders and intellectually resourceful persons in the constituency for the past five months in preparation towards the constitution of a Ayawaso West Wuogon Development Committee that would serve as a local think-tank to help him address problems of the constituency when elected MP for the area. Mr Dowokpor called on Ghanaians to vote massively for the CPP at the December 7 election for a government that believed in "The Public Interest and Ghana First".