CPP Man Sacked Over Demonstration

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    cpp logoThe Ashanti regional branch of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has hinted that it would soon dismiss one of its members who openly supported the recently held ‘hwehwe mu’ demonstration organised by a pro-government pressure group, Movement for Better Ghana Agenda.
    The party’s regional chairman, Samuel Kwabena Danso, in an exclusive interview with the Today newspaper disclaimed the membership of Frederick Antwi, who contested for MP at Suame on the ticket of the party in the 2008 general election.
    Mr. Antwi was reported to have mounted on the “hwehwe mu’ demonstration platform in Kumasi describing himself as a former parliamentary candidate of the CPP and as a matter of fact, the party’s representative for the demonstration.
    “The Movement for Better Ghana Agenda and this ‘hwehwe mu’ demonstration is not only for the NDC but for all Ghanaians so we in the CPP are also supporting it. That’s why I am here with you all today, Mr. Antwi reportedly told the jubilant NDC supporters in the Twi local dialect.
    Mr. Antwi’s action surprised many journalists who had gone to cover the event since the CPP had earlier declared its stand that it was not in support of the demonstration. It is against this background that the regional Chairman expressed surprise that Mr. Antwi, whom he referred to as ‘a nobody’ in the party when he clearly knew it was a gathering of members of a political party. “In any case, ask him the last time he paid his party dues and what he has done for the party after the 2008 general election – he has even resigned from the CPP and I know he might have declared his support for the NDC demonstration because of his own selfish interest,” Mr. Danso stated.
    According to Mr. Danso, “Ghanaians must know that Frederick Antwi has not been with the CPP for the past two years and the party could not have asked him to represent us.”
    He continued that the National Executive Council of the party never even declared its support for any of the two demonstrations and therefore could not have been possible that the Ashanti regional branch of the party would dare send someone who had ‘left the party about two years ago’ to represent it a course they do not believe in.
    Source: Today