Samia Nkrumah has confirmed Nana Kwame Bediako, alias Freedom Jacob Caesar or Cheddar, indeed reached out to her to run alongside him in the upcoming general elections.

The daughter of Ghana’s First Prime Minister and President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, spoke to Starr FM’s Bola Ray.

“Yes, he did. But I told him I’d invested too much in Jomoro, and I believe the Nkrumahiast tradition must be represented in parliament, in that decision-making body,” she said. “As it is today, it is not.”

The former Jomoro MP said it was her undying dream to see a day when Dr Nkrumah’s ideals would be implemented with “clarity and conviction”.

“So, yes, I’ve invested too much in that, and I think I want to see that happen,” she emphasised.

Samia Nkrumah was asked if she believed in Cheddar’s dreams for Ghana and his ability to successfully get into the presidential office.

“I believe many Ghanaians have what it takes inside and outside politics. As I’m saying, now we know what our priorities are. I think most of us do. I believe many, many Ghanaians have the right mindset, and know what needs to be done,” she responded.

The lawmaker and journalist appeared to acknowledge Cheddar was an admired businessman but stressed politics was a thing to be approached quite uniquely.

She said, “But politics, anyway – it’s a different thing. Vying for political power, I think you have to do it with a strategic aim.”

At her first attempt, Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah, the President of the Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Centre (KNAC), won the Jomoro seat in parliament in 2008. A former Chairperson of the Kwame Nkrumah-founded Convention People's Party (CPP), she is the first woman to ever head a major political party in Ghana.

Madam Nkrumah has announced, as Ghana goes to the polls on December 7, 2024, she is entering the race to reclaim the Jomoro seat, this time not on the CPP ticket, but “as an independent candidate”.

“The independent card, I believe, is a new way of doing politics, where you are ready to work with others to make sure that good things happen for your people. I don’t want us to be extremely partisan,” she explained.

Meanwhile, Nana Kwame ‘Cheddar’ Bediako is the leader of the New Force political movement joining many others in the 2024 presidential elections to challenge the age-old duopoly of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).