The Ghana Congress Party was founded in May 1952 by
Kofi Busia
Kofi Abrefa Busia (born 11 July 1913 – 28 August 1978) was a Ghanaian political leader and academic who was Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969 to 1972. As a nationalist leader and prime minister, he helped to restore civilian government to the ...
who also its leader.
The party was formed by dissatisfied former
Convention People's Party
The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UG ...
members, along with the
United Gold Coast Convention
The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) was a political party founded in 1947 whose aim was to bring about Ghanaian independence from their British colonial masters after the Second World War. The United Gold Coast Convention appointed its leade ...
(UGCC) and the
National Democratic Party, which had both suffered poor performances in the
1951 elections, and soon dissolved. The party contested the
1954 election, winning one out of 104 seats. The party represented the conservative position of the chiefs and intelligentsia who were dominant in the UGCC.
After the
Gold Coast legislative election in 1954, Busia and others went on to join the
National Liberation Movement.
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References
Defunct political parties in Ghana
Political parties established in 1952
1952 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)
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