4 Female CPP leaders want party to reconcile differences

Four female leading members of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) have urged the party executive to use social programmes or activities to constantly bring leading members of the party with differences together.
They said such members must be made to play active roles in such activities that would bring them together and also ensure that they make public declarations to support each other after every congress.
Ms Samia Nkrumah, the party’s only Member of Parliament (MP); Mrs Susana Adu-Amankwah, Greater Accra Regional Chairperson of the party; Madam Janet Boampong, Brong Ahafo Regional Organiser in the First Republic; and Ms Isha Sulley Futa, Greater Accra Women’s Organiser of the party, made the call through the Daily Graphic in Accra.
This was after the Greater Accra Chapter of the CPP had organised “Time with Women”, a yearly programme that brings all female members of the party together to share views and concerns about some of the activities of the party.
Sharing her personal experience, Ms Nkrumah said she was able to bring all the feuding factions in her constituency together to mobilise people to win the Jomoro seat through the organisation of such social programmes.
Ms Nkrumah explained that some of the social programmes were building and rehabilitation of schools, hospitals, boreholes.
She added that all the members were made to play active roles in all such projects, and also made to bear in mind that the success of the programmes would help in selling the party to the electorates.
“Although we were fighting indoors, these small social works united us whenever we went outside and were able to win the seat through that,” the Jomoro MP said, and also called on people who believed in the philosophy of the party to remain focused.
Mrs Adu-Amankwah challenged all true members of the CPP to remain faithful to the course of the CPP even when they lost elections in the party.
She described as unacceptable and a threat to the fortunes of the party, the manner in which party members who lost elections at congress sat on the fence and left only those who won to their fate.
She said aside their apathetic behaviour, such leading party members moved the extra mile to ensure that those who were victorious did not do well in general elections or fail in administering the party.
Madam Boampong said it was out of jealousy that made some of the people to sit on the fence, adding that “such party members joined the CPP for their parochial interest and not the ultimate victory of the CPP”.
She called on the leadership and elders of the party to organise social programmes to bring all leading members, both active and inactive, together to share in meals and drinks and afterwards mount a common platform to declare their support for the party irrespective of who was leading it.
She said another problem facing the party was indiscipline on the part of some members and the courage of the leadership to apply sanctions to serve as deterrent to others.
Ms Futa said any committed and dedicated member of the CPP who wanted to see the party win elections would continue to actively support the party irrespective of his or her position.
“The main problem of this great party is the pull him down attitude of those who lose elections,” she said, and added that the practice of sitting on the fence when one was not in leadership position must be discarded.