{"id":5127,"date":"2011-12-03T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/blows-in-cpp-%e2%80%93-sekou-fingers-akosa\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T12:42:30","slug":"blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33654\" title=\"sekou_akosa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sekou Nkrumah and Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The internal bickering in the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) is getting dirtier as the controversial son of Ghana\u2019s first President, Sekou Nkrumah, believes Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, a failed presidential hopeful of the party, is the brain behind the current confusion in the party.<\/p>\n<p>Sekou claims Prof Akosa, who was a strong supporter of Samia Yaba Nkrumah at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre\u2019s CPP conference that elected her as the first woman chairperson of the party, and other members of the CPP are those who have been manipulating Samia to ruffle the hope and ambition of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, in running for the position of the party\u2019s flag-bearer.<\/p>\n<p>Samia recently had a cause to threaten to expel Dr Nduom, the 2008 presidential candidate of the CPP, from the party if he did not put an end to what she described as \u2018nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Nduom\u2019s supporters were calling for early congress to elect a flagbearer for the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party has subsequently succumbed to the demands with congress fixed for the first quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sekou told Citi FM: \u201cI had information that it is people like Prof. Akosa that are influencing Samia to go in that direction and downplay Dr. Nduom\u2019s contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sekou threatened to expose Prof. Akosa\u2019s misdeeds if he continued to attack he (Sekou\u2019s) personality as he had sought to do.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in the wake of calls by Akosa for Sekou to stop attacking his sister\u2019s political career and his description of the latter\u2019s allegation as \u2018total nonsense.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Prof Akosa could not fathom why Sekou, who recently promised to campaign and vote for the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, in the 2012 elections, would underestimate his sister\u2019s intelligence by saying that her political \u2018immaturity\u2019 was being exploited by anti-Nduom elements in the CPP, including himself, for their selfish gains.<\/p>\n<p>But an obviously enraged Sekou warned the former head of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) that \u201che is a politician and a public figure and he should watch the way he tries to criticize people\u201d since, according to him, \u201c\u2026when you live in glass house you don\u2019t throw stones but I think if you live in a boys\u2019 quarters you don\u2019t throw stones, I think he understands exactly what I am talking about and I am talking directly to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a sharp and swift rebuttal, Prof. Akosa, who spoke on the same network, noted that \u201cevery time Sekou opens his mouth, it is an attack on his sister\u201d and urged him to leave Samia alone.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why people misconstrued Samia as a soft personality who could be easily pushed around, noting that \u201cwhen I heard what Sekou said, the only comment that I want to say is that if he is a politician, he should address what he can do for himself.\u201d<br \/>In spite of the attacks on Samia, Akosa believed she possessed the strength and willpower to rise to the occasion and shame her critics, saying, \u201cHow she spoke at the conference shows that Samia is made of sterner stuff and as far as I am concerned, we have got a chairperson of that we should all respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samia, in an angry mood, had attacked the credibility of Dr Nduom for allegedly fanning the current crisis in the party, warning that the CPP would not hesitate to expel the 2008 presidential candidate from the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not tolerate this nonsense any more. Enough is enough,\u201d she told Dr Nduom in a radio interview.<\/p>\n<p>She said CPP would be better off without Nduom.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Charles Takyi-Boadu<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sekou Nkrumah and Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa The internal bickering in the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) is getting dirtier as the controversial son of Ghana\u2019s first President, Sekou Nkrumah, believes Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, a failed presidential hopeful of the party, is the brain behind the current confusion in the party. Sekou claims Prof Akosa, who was a strong supporter of Samia Yaba Nkrumah at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre\u2019s CPP conference that elected her as the first woman chairperson of the party, and other members of the CPP are those who have been manipulating Samia to ruffle the hope and ambition of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, in running for the position of the party\u2019s flag-bearer. <\/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-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sekou Nkrumah and Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa The internal bickering in the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) is getting dirtier as the controversial son of Ghana\u2019s first President, Sekou Nkrumah, believes Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, a failed presidential hopeful of the party, is the brain behind the current confusion in the party. Sekou claims Prof Akosa, who was a strong supporter of Samia Yaba Nkrumah at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre\u2019s CPP conference that elected her as the first woman chairperson of the party, and other members of the CPP are those who have been manipulating Samia to ruffle the hope and ambition of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, in running for the position of the party\u2019s flag-bearer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-03T12:42:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\"},\"wordCount\":620,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\",\"name\":\"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-03T12:42:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/094bsekou_akosa.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/03\/blows-in-cpp-sekou-fingers-akosa\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Blows In CPP \u2013 Sekou Fingers Akosa - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Sekou Nkrumah and Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa The internal bickering in the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP) is getting dirtier as the controversial son of Ghana\u2019s first President, Sekou Nkrumah, believes Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, a failed presidential hopeful of the party, is the brain behind the current confusion in the party. 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