The seeming cracks in the Convention People?s Party (CPP) in Ashanti has been traced to the activities of its National Chairman of the party, Dr Abubarkar Alhassan, Mr Kwabene Anim, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of CPP who was reacting to a previous Chronicle publication to the effect that cracks were appearing in the CPP branch in the region, said the impasse that existed as at then had long been resolved.
He, however, said the biggest problem in the region is the National Chairman, who is accused of encouraging a split in the rank and file of the party in the region. Anim said the National Chairman is always dealing with favourites based on ethnicity.
According to the regional scribe, Dr Alhassan for reasons best known to himself had not visited Ashanti Region. Anim disclosed that but for the intervention of party stalwarts like Mr B.K. Senkyere and Mr Nii Noi Dowuona, the General Secretary to name a few, Dr Alhassan would have been removed by now.
According to him the Central Committee of the party had resolved the issue upon the recommendations of a delegation of the Council of Elders. He said the Kejetia office was unanimously agreed upon to used as the regional secretariat while the Aboabo office remained as a Constituency Office.
Anim said the seeming rift followed the refusal of Mr Tweneboah and Alhaji Mohammed Yakubu, then the first and second Vice Chairmen respectively, to regard the authority of Mr Osei Tutu as a recommendation by the Committee.
He said the regional conference in line with Article 38 (b) and (h) of the Party?s Constitution had to replace them (Tweneboah and Yakubu) for not responding to the directives of the Central Committee.
Secretary Anim also explained that the CPP was currently reorganising itself at the Constituency level to create a base for the party towards elections. Alhassan has also been accused of attempting to smuggle the CPP into the NDC the same way the Parliamentary Action Group Committee intends to join the NPP.
Anim associated himself with Kwesi Pratt Jnr?s view that CPP is an independent party and capable of contesting elections on its own merits. With regards to the renovation of the Kejetia office of the CPP, Mr Anim said 25million cedis could not have been sunk into the project be cause the party did not have that much.
The resolve to remove the National Chariman was temporarily withdrawn at the instance of the named mediators and that the issues would be raised at the Party?s National Congress in December this year.
