Cape Coast, Nov. 3 GNA- The Central Region Constituency Chairmen of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on Saturday inaugurated a Council of Constituency Chairmen (CCC) to help coordinate campaign strategies in the constituencies.

The council, which constitutes all the 19 constituency chairmen in the region, has Mr Okofo Addae-Kwesi, the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam constituency chairman, as its coordinator, and is to among others, promote dialogue towards unity within the national leadership ranks and also to strive at reaching a consensus on who gets elected as presidential flagbearer at the party's national congress without post-congress factionalism. It is also to evolve strategies to help raise funds for the constituency and national campaigns as well as ensure victory in the 2008 general elections.

Mr Addae-Kwesi pointed out that this was the first time in the history of the nation's politics that constituency chairmen would form such a council within an existing party and stressed that the council would do everything possible to make the party more attractive and also enhance its membership drive. He said Ghanaians were yearning for a change and that it was only the CPP which could provide this change since the public have tested both NDC and NPP, adding we have an advantage to win next year's election because people are waiting anxiously for the CPP to organize it self and come back strongly".

He said it was in this regard that the chairmen decided to organize themselves to help organize the party properly to enable it take over power in 2008, adding, "we have been in the doldrums for long, the time has come for us to wakeup from our long sleep." Mr Kwesi-Addae said the NDC and NPP were just imitating what the CPP started in the first republic and asked the public to vote for the party, since the CPP is the originators of all the projects for which the two parties are now claiming credit. He said within the next six months all the constituencies and branches in the region would be provided with offices to enhance the party's work at the grassroots level and called on all floating voters to join the CPP for a better Ghana. 03 Nov. 07