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A leading member of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Bright Akwetey, has stated that the internal challenges confronting the party are under control.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no challenge or problem that cannot be solved. In order to win, we need harmony and togetherness, so we will deal with everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Speaking with journalists at a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the Founder of the party and Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in Accra last Wednesday, Mr Akwetey said the party would deal with the challenges and come out stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to also say that anything going on is a constitutional issue and we will deal with it as such. The revival of the party is paramount to us and in the end, the CPP will stand tall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Context<\/p>\n
The CPP had been embroiled in some confusion after three members of the party, the first Vice-Chairperson, Onzy Nkrumah; the General Secretary, Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantuah and the party\u2019s Youth Organiser, Osei Kofi Acquah, were interdicted by the central committee of the party chaired by its Chairperson, Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah.<\/p>\n
But a counter-central committee (CC) meeting chaired by Emmanuel Ogbojor, second Vice National Chairperson with seven of the elected executive members present, as well as 11 of the regional chairpersons and chairpersons of other committees of the CPP, overturned that decision.<\/p>\n
It also asked Nana Sarpong-Kumankumah to step aside to enable the party to hold a rerun of the election held on August 22, 2020 between her and the first runner-up in the chairmanship race, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim.<\/p>\n
But in a counter statement issued by the party\u2019s Council of Elders, it dissociated itself from the meeting and described it as an unlawful meeting.<\/p>\n
It said the meeting was an attempt to sow seeds of confusion within the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe said meeting, by our reckoning and the constitution of the party, is unlawful,\u201d it said in a statement signed by the council\u2019s secretary, Islam Subiri Isah.<\/p>\n
The statement said the Council of Elders, pursuant to the mandate granted under Article 68 of the CPP constitution, viewed with concern the recent events engaged in by certain members of the CPP.<\/p>\n
However, the General Secretary of the CPP, Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantuah, in a rebuttal of the council\u2019s statement, insisted that the said CC meeting was lawful and properly constituted.<\/p>\n
Erasing<\/p>\n
Mr Akwetey said there were attempts by some unscrupulous people to erase the name of Dr. Nkrumah and his achievements from the history of Ghana.<\/p>\n
He said the party would not allow it to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been an attempt to erase Dr Nkrumah from history but that will not fly. Why should that happen? The African struggle has not ended. What Dr Nkrumah stood and fought for has not been achieved, so why would we want to take him out of Ghana\u2019s history? I will not allow that and the party will not allow that either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Funeral<\/p>\n
On her part, Nana Yaa Jantuah said plans were in place for the party to give Dr Nkrumah a befitting funeral which would take place in November, this year.<\/p>\n
“A befitting funeral he did not get; a restless soul which needs to rest is the bane of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. It is on this premise that the CPP and like-minded people in the diaspora and on the African Continent would organise a befitting funeral for Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n
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