Speaking to ADM after he delivered a lecture to mark the 96th Birthday of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President, Dr Antwi-Danso stated emphatically: "If the Nkrumahists are going to sideline the youth, then they should better pack and go to sleep!" He reminded the party that during the era of Dr. Nkrumah "the CPP climbed at the back of the youth, so the euphoria then was tremendous."

The theme for the function held at the British Council in Accra was "The Man Nkrumah". It was attended by party leaders and factionaries.

Dr Antwi-Danso noted that the CPP had not involved the youth in most of its activities for sometime now, a situation, which, he said, negatively impacted on the performance of the party in the recent elections.

"Obviously there is a kind of gap between today's youth and CPP because of the packaging of our messages. The youth are anxious, have energy, and the youthful exuberant has no time to wait for anything. They want to see things and move forward. The CPP has not been able to target the youth properly because of the liturgy in the CPP itself", he said.

Dr. Antwi-Danso who is a former member of the CPP's Central Committee further said " the CPP without the youth is no CPP."

The lecturer said the CPP is going to target the youth by organising a lot of programmes that would turn them into productive sectors of the economy.

He said the youth of today "are completely neglected, completely emaciated and completely lost because they have no faith in themselves and have no Messiah-like person to redeem them."

Earlier in his presentation, Dr Antwi-Danso said the nation in general lacks entrepreneural capacity to boost the government's declared "Golden Age of Business".

He said in the days of CPP, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah overhauled the whole economy, put up factories and assisted entrepreneurs in their businesses.

He said despite the good things and intentions Nkrumah had for the nation, citing his seven-year development plan, "people conspired to undermine his plan, demonized him and went ahead to finally eliminate him physically."