{"id":466145,"date":"2011-07-22T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/22\/nylander-is-too-partisan-to-lead-cpp-kabila\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:54:56","slug":"nylander-is-too-partisan-to-lead-cpp-kabila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/22\/nylander-is-too-partisan-to-lead-cpp-kabila\/","title":{"rendered":"Nylander Is Too Partisan To Lead CPP- Kabila"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kwabena Bomfeh a.k.a Kabila<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

THE INCUMBENT Chairman of the Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP) is under fire from some outspoken members of the party who say he is too partisan to lead it to make any significant electoral gains.<\/p>\n

Ladi Nylander, who is seeking re-election in violation of his earlier pledge not to seek a second term as party chairman, has been accused of presiding over a party which has not only diminished in strength and attractiveness but also become more divided and fractured.<\/p>\n

Mr Nylander had been touting his credentials as having brought dynamism into the CPP on Joy Fm\u2019s \u2018Super Morning Show\u2019 Tuesday but a flurry of calls that came in from some CPP leaders must have left a sour taste in his mouth.<\/p>\n

First on the list was the current Women\u2019s Organiser of the CPP, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim who said she was disgusted by the chairman\u2019s claims that she and the party\u2019s Youth Organiser, Kwabena Bomfeh alias Kabila, allegedly worked systematically to undermine the electoral fortunes of the CPP in the 2008 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cChairman Ladi himself will know that Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim is not somebody that could be influenced by anything because I have had a series of meetings with him. I am the one supporting him quietly and even in our meetings, so now if I have Chairman Ladi sitting in the studios saying that maybe myself and Kabila were influenced by maybe money or something, in fact I [can only be outraged],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s organiser said she was a target of Mr Nylander\u2019s vicious attacks because she refused to tow a certain line. She believes the chairman simply wants to scuttle her campaign for re-election.<\/p>\n

Parrying Mr Nylander\u2019s criticism that a few weeks to the 2008 elections, she publicly stated that she was waiting to be resourced to go to the field and campaign, Hajia Hamdatu said she was only responding to false claims by the then flag bearer, Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, that he had given her enough money to campaign and yet she was doing nothing.<\/p>\n

She told the host of the show, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah she could not sit by while her reputation was being dragged into disrepute.<\/p>\n

Mr Nylander\u2019s criticisms were also directed at Youth Organiser, Kabila, who also came under attack for working to dissipate the goodwill of the CPP prior to the 2008 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo, three weeks before the elections, you know that our national youth organiser went on the airwaves and started talking about not voting for our flag bearer. I keep saying that if the frog comes of the water and says that the crocodile is polluting the water, who are you to start questioning him?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Mr. Nylander is convinced the comments of Kabila and Hajia Hamdatu collapsed the votes of the CPP as they created doubts in the minds of the electorate about whether the party was a credible alternative.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think that our ranks were infiltrated, I like to think that there were some influences which led [to the party\u2019s poor showing]\u2026I like to think that these are people who were influenced. \u2026We need to have people who are incorruptible, people who believe in principles, who believe that hard work is what gets you there and not taking short corners. Those are the people that CPP wants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Responding to the chairman\u2019s comments, Kabila said, \u201cMy national chairman is making very dishonest aspersions about my person, my character and my conduct and I\u2019m disappointed in him that he wants to use that as a platform to seek re-election. When he told the constituents of the Convention People\u2019s Party he wanted to be chairman of the party for one term, (he later violated that) that is the highest level of dishonesty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kabila claimed that after his election as chairman some three years ago, Mr Nylander never visited any constituency in the country to try and strengthen the structures of the party until now that he is seeking re-election.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsk him\u2026when I wrote a letter to him complaining about the character and the conduct and some commitments that the flag bearer of the party had made which were very disingenuous to the character of the party and also the credibility and ideology of the party, what did he do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kabila said the chairman rather dragged him before the Disciplinary Committee of the party because he took a national issue, the STX deal, to court.<\/p>\n

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa who lost the CPP\u2019s flag bearer ship to Dr Nduom was also accused by Mr. Nylander of not campaigning for the flag bearer.<\/p>\n

He told Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, \u201cI\u2019ve sat here and listened to chairman and what I just want to say is that the CPP needs a change and we need a radical progressive change that would put the CPP on a [better] platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Akosa doesn\u2019t think Mr Nylander is the man to lead that change because the current chairman is a biased in favour of one person-Paa Kwesi Nduom.<\/p>\n

Unfazed by the unfavourable responses to his presentation Mr Nylander said \u201cthe point is that it is always easier to criticize than to praise and of course the people who called \u2013 Mr Kabila, Hajia Hamdatu, Prof. Akosa \u2013 they are the ones that [have] actually been against [me] right from the start, so I don\u2019t expect them to heap any praises [on me].\u201d<\/p>\n

He accused Prof Akosa of not forgiving the CPP after losing the flag bearer ship race.
For Mr Nylander some CPP leaders were not proactive and were waiting for others to work for them to benefit. \u201cPaa Kwesi Nduom for all his faults \u2013 and he has many of them \u2013 goes out there and he campaigns, he goes out there and he fights, he is a fighter and if you sit in Accra and you expect that he should be suspended or taken off or whatever just to benefit you, it is a no-no, it can\u2019t happen,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n

He said the CPP can be a formidable force but that is only if \u201cwe can weed out the negative people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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