The Secretary of the newly-formed Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Kofi Asamoah has launched an attack on the Head of Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwabena Benyarko for calling on Dr. Ndoum to officially resign from the party or be sacked after a two-week ultimatum.
He said, “The leaders of the CPP should stop being petty and rather focus on receiving the thousands and millions of people they claimed were waiting for Dr. Ndoum’s exit in order to join the party.”
Mr. Kwabena Benyarko has asked the 2008 flagbearer of the party, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom to officially resign. Speaking on an Accra-based radio station, Mr. Benyarko said the CPP has written to the former flagbearer requesting him to tender in his resignation letter, however there has been no response.
“We need him to officially inform us that he has resigned from the party or else we will sack him,” he said.
In an interview with Daily Guide, Kofi Asamoah, who is also a special aid to the founder of PPP, Dr. Ndoum said, “How can you sack somebody who is not a member of your political party. I think it is a misdirected statement made by the party. As far as we are concerned, Ndoum is no more a member of the CPP.” He said the statement that was released by Dr. Ndoum on 28 December 2011 showed that he had resigned from CPP.
“I don’t know why the party executives can’t mind their own business but still going over one man they said he is not relevant, unimportant and was a problem as far as the CPP was concerned,” he said.
“I have read the constitution of CPP both the previous and current one and there is nowhere that it stated explicitly a procedure for members who want to leave the party to follow”.
However, he said there is a portion in the constitution that states that if a member joins another political party whose model conflicts with that of CPP then the person ceases to be a member of the party.
He said Dr Nduom is no longer a member of the party by virtue of his decision to form or join the PPP whose ideals conflict with those of CPP.
“I think all of us join political parties at our own free will. So we can also stop at any point in time at our own free will. The style adopted by Dr. Ndoum is the press statement which announced his official resignation as far as his future relationship with CPP is concerned,” he said.
Kofi Asamoah said “CPP feels threatened by the massive support PPP has received and that is why they are coming out with strategies to undermine Dr. Ndoum and his newly-formed party.
He said their fears indicate the imminent end of the CPP.
Meanwhile Kofi Asamoah said they have not received any letter from the CPP asking Dr. Ndoum to officially resign or be sacked, adding, “I have read it in the media that the Chairman of CPP, Samia Nkrumah has written a letter to Dr. Ndoum to officially resign, but as I speak to you now, we have not received any official letter to that effect and when we do receive it we will respond appropriately”.
He said leaders of CPP will become a laughing stock and Ghanaians will consider them as petty if they go on with their intended action.
After weeks of internal wrangling in the CPP, Dr. Nduom announced his departure from the party and subsequently formed a new party, PPP.
