Some disgruntled members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) are threatening to take legal action against the party’s decision to ask all national executives to resign or face removal.
The NEC, during their meeting in Kumasi on Tuesday, 5th December, passed a vote of no confidence in the national executives. Consequently, the General Secretary of the party, Nana Yaa Jantuah, and five other executives resigned, and a thirteen-member interim body was established to run the affairs of the party.
However, three others, including the national chairperson of the party, Nana Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong-Kumankumah, insist they are still occupying their positions.
Speaking at a news conference in Kumasi, some leading members of the party have described the actions of the NEC as illegal, emphasizing that due process was not followed.
Addressing the media, a former Greater Accra Regional chairman of the party, Matthew Kwasi Obeng Boadu, noted that they are set to go to court for an interpretation to bring finality to the issue. They maintain that the party’s decision is unconstitutional.
“There is a provision in our constitution that states to remove a chairman and leader of the party, a specific procedure must be followed. It states that the person should be given a one-month notice. However, out of the blue, they said they had suspended our chairman and leader and had even suspended all our national executives. We tried to advise them, but they would not listen.”
“Since it did not go through the normal procedure, we don’t accept it in the CPP. We will make sure that the court decides and interprets the CPP constitution for the whole world to know that we violated our constitution in the first place. Therefore, what happened is illegal and should not be so.”