Nationalist Party (Ghana)

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The Nationalist Party ( NP ) was a political party in the former British colony of Gold Coast , now Ghana .

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The party was founded by Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey in 1954, who left the Ghana Congress Party after falling out with Kofi Abrefa Busia .

The Nationalist Party had a local focus in Accra .

After the split, both parties were unable to prevail against the political supremacy of the Convention People's Party (CPP) of Kwame Nkrumah , who later became the first president of Ghana, and gain political power.

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