The Convener for Socialist Forum and a leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Comrade Kwesi Pratt Jnr says the downfall of the CPP is separation of the Nkrumahist fronts. According to him a number of political parties have emerged from the party which has crippled the success of the CPP. Comrade Kwesi Pratt named DPP, PNC and GCPP as some of the parties that have emerged so far and that, it is affecting CPP’s re-organization. He said the bane of the CPP is that most of its stalwarts have defected to the NPP and NDC which is making its successes scrambled. He bemoaned the performance of the party during elections saying “it is a shame for Nkrumah’s party to be performing so abysmally”. Mr. Pratt noted that even those who are left in the CPP are disunited and are engaged in backbiting which is also one of the obstacles of the party. Speaking to Asempa Fm’s Ekosii-Sen on Tuesday, he said one of the factors crippling CPP is the inability of the party to define what the party stands for in terms of ideology. Mr. Pratt also chided some of the CPP members who in his mind lack CPP’s ideological commitment. “There are some who like CPP but do not like Nkrumah and there are others who are Nkrumahists but do not like the CPP” he asserted. He said the major solution to the appalling image of CPP in the country now is to reorganize itself and let people know the party is the mouthpiece of the ordinary people. He emphasized that the CPP should make Ghanaians know how different it is from the NPP and the NDC. Mr. Pratt Junior told Host of Ekosi Sen’s Nana Kwabena Bobie Ansah that Nkrumahism is still relevance and therefore calling the bluff of people who disagrees with him. He said looking at the situation in Ghana now where the economy is always shrinking; it means that Nkrumahism ideology is the one which can transform the country. “Look, tooth pick is imported from Malaysia whiles even catapult is imported from China so what shows that Nkrumahism is irrelevant today. If Nkrumah’s ideology was continued by various governments which came after his overthrow the country would have been better positioned than the situation now”. “Even the NPP knows Nkrumah is relevant that is why their billboards for the 2004 election had Nkrumah’s photograph and that of Kufuor on them” he continued. Kwesi Pratt hinted that as part of the Founder’s day which is Wednesday 21st September, 2011 the Socialist Forum of Ghana will organize the Nkrumah memorial lectures on the theme: “the relevance of Nkrumahism today”. According to him, speakers who will be delivering the message of the Nkrumahism relevance are Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa - a leading member of the CPP, deputy Western Regional Minister, Emelia Arthur and a Lecturer at the modern languages department, Dr. Gamel Nasser Adams.