The New face of CPP, Ladi Nylander
Loading ...Mr. Ladi Nylander was currently elected as the New Chairman of the Convention People’s Party. A position he won defeating the incumbent Dr. Edmund Delle of the party by a greater margin of 50+percent at the party’s great delegates congress at Kumasi.
After winning the chairmanship, Ladi commenced implementing strategies that could send CPP to the refurbished Flag staff house. Once in an interview he said the new CPP will be strict on accountability and transparency.
“The CPP needed to be accountable and transparent so that when given the mandate of the nation, it would govern to the satisfaction of all and inspire confidence among Ghanaians”.
Mr. Nylander is believed to have the greatest conviction that the CPP was moving to a new level where things would not only be done but seen to be done within the corridors of transparency and accountability.
Mr Ladi told the journal that the CPP was repositioning itself strategically to take over the reins of government, especially after Ghanaians had experienced governance under the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Born in July 1946 and married with 4 children Mr. Ladi Nylander was educated at Mfantsipim School (Cape Coast), Kings College, (Taunton), UK and is an Alumnus of the University of Ghana, the University of Pittsburgh and the NorthWestern University in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
He is a graduate of Economics and has been involved in business operations world-wide for nearly thirty years based variously in America, East Africa and Europe.
Currently, he is actively involved in exports and business strategy direction and supervision in West and Central Africa.
He is also founder and Chairman of Getrade (Ghana) Ltd. which is the premier exporter of Handicrafts and other artisanal wood products from Ghana. Getrade (Gh.) is also the pioneer manufacturer and marketer of traditional natural soap products for the modern local and export markets; and his company has won the Ghana Export Promotion Council’s (GEPC’s) Exporter of the Year Award over a dozen times in various product categories.
Mr Nylander and the CPP believed in state sector development where jobs were created for the mass of the people.
“We cannot leave all of this in the hands of the private sector,” he argued. He said that CPP was going to translate ideas into profitable action plans for the good of the people.
“Ghanaians must expect a new pragmatic development agenda from CPP as it pursues national governance,” he assured.
Mr Nylander, believes that there was the need for all political parties that claimed their heritage from the Nkrumaist ideas to come together and work with a united front.
“It is common sense that if we are all talking Nkrumahist ideas, then we should not dissipate “”our resources”
Mr Nylander said that the CPP would like to work together with all other Nkrumaist groupings to ensure victory in 2008.
He said as a gesture of goodwill, “I have started talking to several members of other Nkrumaist groupings to concretise the unity ideas”.
He said that the CPP, as a mass political party, would reach out to everyone, stressing that “every vote counts”.
Mr Nylander, the new face of the CPP leadership said that Ghana needed to be managed in a business-like manner because the world had changed into a globalised phenomenon.
He said that the CPP would ensure that Ghanaians were put at an advantageous position because as the world became increasingly globalised, we needed to think globally but act locally for the benefit of Ghanaians.
“That is what the CPP pledges to do”, Mr Nylander stated, and underlined the fact that living in a globalised world did not mean that Ghana should be subsumed.
Describing the CPP as a sleeping giant, he said that the structures of the party would be strengthened.
Ladi Nylander is a Past President of The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), and serves on the Boards of the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust (GHCT), Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Aid to Artisans (Gh.) , The DWIB Leukaemia Trust, Technoserve member amongst other voluntary activities including the Red Cross and an Executive Member of the Ghana Mental Health Association (GMHA).
A keen Sportsman he has also been past Chairman of the Ghana Squash Rackets Association.
He has an avid interest in Art & Culture, History, Biodiversity, the Environment, and in promoting Sustainable Business.
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