The Director of Communications for the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Sylvester Sarpong-Soprano, has disclosed that, the party might not present a presidential candidate for the 2024 general election.
He made this statement during an exclusive interview with Accra-based Asaase Radio.
According to the communication director of the party, the consistent court cases with the party executives have made it impossible to conduct primaries to select a candidate for the elections.
“I am not sure we can present a candidate for 2024 because of what is occurring in the party.The party persistently has not been able to organize itself, and this is because of multiple repeated court cases challenging the chairman and leader.”
“As the party stands now, as Director of Communications committed to telling the truth about the situation in the party in the interest of the party, I don’t see how that [fielding a candidate] might be possible,” he explained.
Early this year, the High Court in Accra heard a suit seeking to prevent the Chairperson and Leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nana Akosua Frimpomaa, from holding herself out as leader and chairperson of the party.
However the case was thrown out by Justice Ellen L.S. Mireku who indicated that CPP’s Central Committee was the highest body of the party and, therefore, an interim committee of the party had no authority to sue on behalf of the party.
“The removal of the national leaders did not result in the automatic dissolution of the Central Committee which empowers the National Executive Committee to form an interim council to act in place and/or stead of the central committee.
“Therefore, I find that the present action, which was initiated at the behest of the interim council, which is not an organ of the party and not having been done at the behest of or through the highest administrative body of the party, which is the Central Committee, the present action is at the blind side of the party and as such without its consent,” Justice Mireku said.
The judge further held the suit against the chairperson was without merit since it was not authorized by the highest administrative body of the party, adding that everything in the writ and the processes so far filed smacked of an attempt to use the machinery of law to perpetuate an injustice.
