AAGM: CPP, NDC And NPP Must Each Stand On Their Feet.

(From Ghanaian Chronicle: AAGM)

Moves to get the Convention People's Party (CPP) family to align themselves with the National Democratic Congress in the hope of dislodging the ruling New Patriotic Party from power have been in the news of late.

Similarly, talks are reported to be going on between the same CPP and the NPP to retain the former's support in the 2004 elections, after a similar support had been given in year 2000.

On the surface, there seems very little wrong with such political schemings and their likely results.

The Chronicle would, however, want to caution all the parties involved to be circumspect on point of principle, ideology and the health of our fledgling democracy.

In the first place, if the CPP still does have an ideology (and they seem to still profess socialism), it would be more honourable to continue preaching it, rather than ganging up with a party with a diametrically opposed ideology or another with doubtful ideology.

If the problem with the CPP is frustration in opposition accentuated by the collapse of the world's socialist powers, they are advised to bide their time further: There could one day come an implosion in the reigning capitalist arrangement and there would once again be clamour for socialist ...