Upon listening to the General Secretary of CPP on Eye witness news on
Citifm last night, that Flagbearership election should take place
‘sometime next year’ with the excuse that the newly elected National
Executives should be given the chance to organize the party structures
in all the 230 constituencies, we became worried about the real
intentions of the newly elected executives of the CPP especially Mr.
Greenstreet, who is a Lawyer by profession. We were wondering why the
General Secretary of a well known political party like the CPP should
make such unilateral statement.
It is very worrying and unacceptable for the General Secretary of our
party, Mr. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet to have made such undemocratic
proclamation especially considering the limited time available for the
party to contest the presidential and parliamentary election.
We are incredibly disturbed about the fact that, the newly elected
National executives are sabotaging the CPP because, the decision to
hold presidential primaries ‘sometime next year’ as indicated by Mr.
Ivor Greenstreet on Citifm and Ms. Samia Nkrumah on Choice fm is a
complete violation of Article 78 clause 3 of the CPP Constitution,
which stipulates in simple language that the party should go to
congress two years ahead of any general elections.
We wish to give surety to the National Executives that, any purposeful
attempt to subvert the CPP constitution and sabotage the electoral
fortunes of our dear party in the 2012 general elections would not be
taken nonchalantly at all. The CPP leadership must further understand
that procrastination is the thief of time; so therefore, we cannot
waste time because if we did, we can only waste ourselves and our
party.
We do not want to believe that the undue delay is an effort to further
the agenda of other political parties and their candidates at the
expense of the promising electoral fortunes of the CPP in the 2012
elections. If the CPP is not interested in contesting the 2012 general
elections, the leadership must be bold to tell us now so that we do
not waste our time.
Signed:
Odartey Hayford
Eastern Regional Education Secretary and Oda Constituency Organizer
0267139545 / 0242724900 / 0205656596
