Efforts to bring Aggudey on board proves futile — Nylander

THE National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Ladi Nylander has said that several attempts to bring Mr George Aggudey, a former presidential hopeful of the party on board has proved futile.
According to him, the Mr Aggudey who was the party’s 2004 presidential candidate seemed to have rejected the olive branch extended by the party to all its members after the party’s congress.
Mr Nylander was answering questions from the media on why Mr Aggudey was the only aspirant who was not part of the party’s campaign team.
The occasion was the formal introduction of its National Campaign Team, which is made up of former presidential and other national executives as well as some leading members of the party at a short ceremony at its headquarters in Accra ,yesterday.
Mr Nylander explained that he had personally tried on several occasions to get in touch with Mr Aggudey to urge him to forget the differences that might have cropped up during the 2007 congress, but all to no avail.
On January 3, 2008 operatives of, Mr Oposika Aggudey, stormed the party’s headquarters and took away some items he had donated to the party.
The action appeared to be the fall out of Mr Aggudey’s attempt last December to lead the party once again to this year’s general election.
By noon yesterday, about 12 security men believed to have been drawn from Mr Aggudey’s own security firm, acting on his instructions, were busily packing the items into two pick-up vehicles, with registration numbers GT 1212 Y and GR 5050 X.
Party officials at the headquarters at the time of the packing included the Greater Accra Regional Chairperson, Mrs Susan Adu-Amankwah and the National Youth Organiser, Mr David Bomfeh, alias Kabila.