<\/p>\n
The Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP) has chastised its leader and Chairperson, Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah whom they accuse of fueling chaos and discord in the party.<\/p>\n
The CPP chairperson on Monday reported five national executive officers of the party to the Adabraka Police station in Accra for allegedly making derogatory statements about her.<\/p>\n
The five have since been granted self-recognizance bail.<\/p>\n
In a Citi News<\/strong> interview, the General Secretary of the Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP), Nana Yaa Jantuah, said the actions of the chairperson are unfortunate.<\/p>\n \u201cShe doesn\u2019t know what it does to members when these things happen.\u00a0 <\/span>We are all together as one irrespective of whatever happens. This is what we call democratic centralism. We may have our differences but when it comes to unity and sanctity of the party, we need to protect it and this woman has not protected it. How do you take members of your party to the police station? The CPP is not a war zone, she just has to step aside for a re-run.\u201d<\/p>\n The Central Committee of the CPP directed Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah to step aside<\/strong> after she gained 43% of the total votes cast in their chairmanship elections of August, 2020.<\/p>\n It\u2019s said, the votes she garnered do not make her qualified for the position she occupies.<\/p>\n In a statement, the Central Committee said it has resolved to conduct a run-off election between Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong- Kumankumah and the first runner-up, Comrade Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim.<\/p>\n However, she has criticized attempts by the party\u2019s central committee to remove her from office.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ms. Kumankumah said calls for her to step aside are needless, given that she legitimately won the election<\/strong> based on the majority of votes.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the Council of Elders said, I did not elect myself. I did not swear in myself. They decided to use a simple majority which I got more than 240 to the next person and I won in ten regions. I was elected and properly sworn in, and I have been in this position for almost two years,\u201d she said on\u00a0Eyewitness News.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ms. Kumankumah asked the committee to resort to the right procedures in getting their concerns addressed if they felt the processes leading to her election were illegal.<\/p>\n \u201cOur Constitution is clear. If they have any problem they have to go through the internal mechanisms of our party. This issue has already gone to court, and it has already been settled in court, so anybody that has a problem has to go through the party\u2019s structures.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the CPP Council of Elders has condemned the Committee\u2019s attempts to remove Ms. Kumankumah from office.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Convention Peoples\u2019 Party (CPP) has chastised its leader and Chairperson, Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah whom they accuse of fueling chaos and discord in the party. The CPP chairperson on Monday reported five national executive officers of the party to the Adabraka Police station in Accra for allegedly making derogatory statements about her. The five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9300,8955,10449,6419,6490,958,1650,1233,2790],"class_list":["post-1068613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-chairperson","tag-cpp","tag-dragging","tag-embattled","tag-members","tag-party","tag-police","tag-slams","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}