Founder of the National Interest Movement (NIM), Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, has alleged that the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is being controlled by forces within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The former running mate and flag bearer of the party says those unseen forces influenced his decisions at the time through forces that controlled some people within the party to impede the progress of his goals.
Speaking with Captain Smart on Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, Thursday, April 18, 2024, Dr. Abu Sakara indicated that he needed to opt out when he realised that the people were not ready to propagate the ideals of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah but rather allow themselves to be controlled by the powers that be within the NPP and NDC.
He responded in the affirmative when asked by the host, if “the CPP is being controlled by the NPP and NDC”, explaining that “they (NPP and NDC) have the influence because they have a stake. I was influenced in the sense that the activities affected what I wanted to do. Their influences on other people could affect you. It impedes your progress and you can carry people along as far as they want to go.”
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Dr. Abu Sakara recently joined forces with Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen’s Movement for Change (M4C), together with ten other groups to form the Alliance for Revolutionary Change which was launched Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
He had said in an earlier interview on TV3’s Hot Issues Sunday, April 14, that they came together because apart from the two groups being movements, “we have the same outlook and the same objectives. We want to see a transformative change not just a change. A change in terms of getting the quantum leap in development that have eluded us all this while so that objective brought us together.”
He says he believes this is the right time to right the wrongs having endured the hardships the two political parties have subjected Ghana into for the past three decades and over.
“We have all been thinking about how we can form the vehicle that will be an alternative to the NPP and NDC and offer us something beyond what they have offered us so that again became the driving force.
“We know individually we may not have the wherewithal because the elections have now been heavily monetized so it is going to take a collective effort of people who are not on the other side, but now on non-aligned domain to come together rather than contest individually within that domain. So it’s a natural and organic process that happened and it has had its time,” he indicated.
