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The Convention People's Party's 2008 presidential candidate, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, has quit the party to pursue his presidential dreams as an independent candidate in the 2012 elections.He addressed the media on his decision Wednesday morning, calling on visionaries who seek the welfare of the ordinary Ghanaian to join forces with him.Dr. Nduom who described 2012 as "a year of deliverance for Ghana" urged Ghanaians to vote massively for him in next years polls to experience real change in their pockets.He noted that a new political movement he plans to lead aims at providing a new paradigm in the Ghanaian political space and will attract patriotic citizens who are ready to work to safeguard the future of the country."I am here this morning to declare my resolve to work with like-minded men and women from all over the country, to form a very focused, vibrant, independent-minded and progressive Political Movement to contest the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Our Political Movement will work hard to be a winner in 2012. It will be difficult, we know, but we are prepared to do everything possible to give Ghanaians an alternative that is progressive and different in a very positive way."Dr. Nduom did not mince words touting himself as the best candidate with the best policies and programmes to accelerate Ghana's development to a first world country."Indeed this is the time to look forward and forward only, to a new political order. As Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah himself said, ‘Forward Ever, Backward Never!’ We are not look backward..."“Our new political movement aims to present a credible, united, disciplined and well-organised election machine that is coupled with a clear, specific Platform for Change Ghanaians can feel in their lives and in their pockets within four years. Ours is a broad-based national Movement with people who have been crying for the “change we need” after experiencing NDC and NPP administrations that have not delivered to their expectations. We are a Political Movement guided by an agenda for change. Unfortunately, the Ghanaian electoral laws do not permit a collective of independent like-minded people to use the same platform and symbol for presidential and parliamentary campaigns. So we will by necessity convert from Political Movement to become a political party. We will inaugurate this truly national Political Movement in the next two months at a national convention that will demonstrate our true character, strength and the depth of human capital that we are gathering. Our goal is to contest the 2012 elections with a positive, progressive, different force not felt in the Fourth Republic.”.His exit from the Convention People's Party had been widely speculated after he fell out with some of the current leadership of the party, led by chairperson Samia Yaba Nkrumah, who had threatened to sanction Nduom for alleged indiscipline.Spokespersons for Nduom also hinted that he would go independent of the party, and would announce his political future before the year ends.
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