An ardent Nkrumaist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has lampooned the leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) for losing focus on the necessary measures they needed to adopt to bring the party back to power. He said instead of showing interest in building party structures from the grassroots level, the opposite is what is currently prevailing as members jostle each other for leadership positions. In questioning the activeness of the party on the ground, Mr Pratt said in a disapproving tone that within the party, “the main thing is competition to become a flag-bearer and chairman and so on. Nobody is talking about how to revamp the party structures; how to make the party effective”. He said the power-struggle in the party is so evident to the extent that those who got elected to the flagbearership position blatantly sidelined their opponents, and even their supporters, as they try fruitlessly to win political power. For instance, in the run-up to the 2008 general elections he said the “party was completely sidelined” in the heat of the campaign, whilst non-members of the CPP where rather brought in to run the show. Sounding livid on Peace FM's Kokrooko on Friday about how CPP is being run, he said it is shameful for a party seriously seeking power to attain just one per cent of the total vote cast in a nationwide election. Mr Pratt who is the Managing-Editor of the Insight newspaper implored his fellow CPP members, popularly known as comrades, to adopt strategies used by Nkrumah by mobilising small activist groups to effectively build the party. “We are part of the problem, we are not focusing on the important thing we need to do in the party,” he said, adding that often times the party’s leadership go to bed and are only awake when election is approaching. He asked the leadership of the CPP to put aside their personal ambition and concentrate on how to improve the fortunes of the party. Story by Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana