There is turmoil in the Convention People\u2019s Party with party leaders engaged in accusations and counter accusations.<\/p>\n
Party General Secretary, Ivor Greenstreet fingered the CPP\u2019s 2008 presidential candidate for machinations designed to cause disaffection in the party.<\/p>\n
Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, according to Mr Greenstreet, is responsible for agitations in the CPP by some groups who want the party to organize presidential primaries next month.<\/p>\n
The CPP General Secretary told Joy FM the groups are being \u201cmanipulated and the process is being orchestrated by one individual by the name of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom and we will face him squarely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the machinations and activities that he\u2019s been engaged in throughout the country and it is incredible to believe that this one individual believes that by his actions he has any chance of unifying this party. I do not understand why he continues along this line of action which clearly cannot auger well for this party as a whole,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Some regional officers of the CPP say they are holding a meeting to discuss the failure of the party\u2019s leadership to hold presidential primaries and other matters.<\/p>\n
CPP Chairman Samia Yaba Nkrumah has hinted the party will hold its presidential primaries in March next year but the groups contend that will be in violation of Article 78 Clause 3 of the party\u2019s constitution which requires that a presidential candidate is elected 24 months before elections.<\/p>\n
Mr Greenstreet said while the national officers of the CPP were not against the meeting called by one-third of the CPP\u2019s national executive committee, he insisted that a meeting could not be held without the national officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to present their request [for a meeting] to the party, the party will constitute the meeting and the party will give notice to all the other two-thirds of National Executive Council Committee members \u2026who are also entitled to be present and deliberate on party matters and the forward march of the party,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
According to him, there were overwhelming evidence of Dr Nduom, using some members of the party to circumvent the process.<\/p>\n
But a spokesperson for Dr Nduom, Mr Kofi Asamoah Siaw said it was an insult to the intelligence of the NEC members for Mr Greenstreet to suggest that they were susceptible to manipulation.<\/p>\n
He said Mr Grenstreet should discipline himself and attend to important matters affecting the CPP.<\/p>\n
Mr Siaw said media reports that the party\u2019s Chairperson, Samia Nkrumah had been meeting secretly with leaders of the governing National Democratic Congress as part of efforts to enter into a pact with the NDC in order that the CPP will not elect a presidential candidate to contest the 2012 elections were matters requiring the General Secretary\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n
He said the CPP General Secretary should address such damning reports instead of leveling spurious allegations against Dr Nduom.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is turmoil in the Convention People\u2019s Party with party leaders engaged in accusations and counter accusations. Party General Secretary, Ivor Greenstreet fingered the CPP\u2019s 2008 presidential candidate for machinations designed to cause disaffection in the party. Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, according to Mr Greenstreet, is responsible for agitations in the CPP by some groups who want the party to organize presidential primaries next month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n