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is reported to have been instrumental in getting the Kwame Nkrumah Youngsters Club and the Kwame Nkrumah Welfare Society to merge to form the National Convention Party. He was the patron of both clubs. He was also instrumental along with
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The party was formed in 1992 after the ban on political parties was lifted by the military
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on 29 January 1996. This signaled the end of the NCP as a standalone party.
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in forming the electoral alliance between the NCP and the
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Index

Leader
Kow Nkensen Arkaah
Convention People's Party
People's Convention Party
Ideology
Nkrumaism
Progressivism
Politics of Ghana
Political parties
Elections
political party
Ghana
Provisional National Defence Council
Kow Nkensen Arkaah
Kojo Tsikata
P. V. Obeng
Ebo Tawiah
National Democratic Congress
1992 presidential election
National Democratic Congress
Jerry Rawlings
Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere
Owuraku Amofa
29 December 1992 Parliamentary election
1996
1992
1992
Jerry Rawlings
Nkrumahist
People's Convention Party

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