CPP has scheduled to Elect its Flagbearer on September 4

The Convention People’s Party, CPP has scheduled September 4, 2024, for congress to elect a flagbearer for the December 7 elections.

This was after the party mended internal cracks seen to be a bane for its forward movement.

The main purpose of the emergency National Executive Council meeting of the Convention People’s Party, CPP in Kumasi was to agree on a date to elect the party’s flagbearer for the December 7 general election. Aside from this, members of the National Executive Council discussed issues affecting the progress of the party.

Currently, two persons, the National Chairman of the party, Akosua Sarpong Kumankuma and a Historian, Yaw Anokye Frimpong have filed to go through the process after being cleared by the vetting committee of the red cockerel party.

After extensive deliberations, the members settled on the 4th of next month to elect the flagbearer. The election of the Flagbearer will take place across all the regions of the country.

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Two people have declared their intention to contest for the position. They are Lawyer Frimpong Yaw Anokye a private legal practitioner and Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah, the immediate past chairperson of the party.

A third candidate, Ivor Kwabena Greenstreet failed to pick forms to contest even though he had earlier expressed interest in the position.

The congress has been decentralized and will take place in all 16 regional capitals.

Results from the congress will be sent to a centralised office at the party’s headquarters for final collation and onward declaration.

The Nkrumaist party is racing against time to meet the Electoral Commission’s deadline for filing for their candidature.

Critics have, however, attributed the delay in going to Congress to disunity in the party.

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The CPP until recently has been plagued by internal wrangling causing some national executives the likes of Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantua and others to resign from positions they were elected to hold in the party.

But the party’s election committee believes that all cracks have been mended and remain solid enough to go into the December elections.

The party has admitted that it is far behind time in its campaigning activities, but it’s hopeful to move into action as soon as the presidential primary is over.