The Greater Accra Women’s Organiser of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Madam Aisha Sulley Fula, has said the behaviour of a youth group calling for the resignation of the National Youth Organiser, Mr Kwabena Bomfeh, was uncalled for, adding that the group did not even belong to the party and therefore, had no rights to demonstrate or ask for the resignation of the youth organiser.
A group called the Concerned Youth for the Conventions People’s Party (CPP) Renaissance, held a demonstration at the party’s headquarters on Monday calling for the resignation of the National Youth Organiser, Mr Kwabena Bomfeh, aka Kabila.
The move, the group said, was to present a petition to the party executives and the Central Committee to investigate the social misconduct of Mr Bomfeh.
However, Madam Fula explained that if the group had a problem with him (Mr Bomfeh), the best way was to use dialogue to resolve the issues instead of going public.
She said “ if any one wants ‘Kabila’ out of office, that person must contest at congress and win. Kabila is a winning material and absolutely no one can take him out”.
She said Mr Bomfeh had two more years before the end of his term in office and therefore any one who wanted him out should wait for the next congress.
The group which comprises youth in the various tertiary institutions and constituencies carried placards with inscriptions such as, “Kabila go back to your roots, Kabila must go, Kabila does not belong to the CPP”.
Their quest to present the petition to the party executives who were at the office premises at the time of the demonstration proved futile as they were resisted and prevented from entering the party’s office.
The spokesperson for the group, Mr Frederick Opaque, said the call for Mr Bomfeh’s resignation as youth leader stemmed from his gross incompetence and negligence in the exercise of his duty.
“We wish to bring to the notice of the Central Committee of our party certain untoward social misconduct and serious acts of sabotage on the part of Mr Bomfeh and also for rapid disciplinary action against him”
He said the refusal of the executives to take the petition they presented would call for another action from the youth, saying “we would go to any level to make our petition known because we have brought out concrete issues that need to be addressed”.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, Mr Opoku said Mr Bomfeh’s resignation would pave way for a more credible and devoted person to rebuild the youth wing, which he had so far failed to manage.
He noted that since his assumption of office two-and-a-half years ago, he had collapse over 18 youth branches in the tertiary institutions (TESCHART) which was now their prime concern.
Mr Opoku appealed to the central committee of the party to organise an early congress to give the youth adequate time to prepare for elections in 2012.
In another development, Sebastian Syme reports that the Convention People's Party (CPP) parliamentary candidate for the Okaikoi South Constituency in the 2008 election, Mr Anthony Mensah, has called on the National Youth Organiser of the party, Mr Kwabena Bomfeh, to resign from his position to save the party from further disintegration.
Describing Mr Bomfeh as a “traitor”, a “saboteur” and an “intruder” who did not have the interest of the CPP at heart, Mr Mensah said the actions of the youth organiser over the years had amounted to undermining the growth of the party and, thus, his continued stay in office could spell doom for the party.
The call for Mr Bomfeh's resignation comes on the heels of incessant calls by some CPP youth demanding that he vacates his post.
Addressing a news conference in Accra, Mr Mensah produced a speech for a proposed press conference purportedly written by ‘Kabila’ ahead of the 2008 presidential run-off in which he mobilised parliamentary candidates of the CPP in the Greater Accra Region to endorse the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo.
Mr Mensah questioned the loyalty of Mr Bomfeh, who is popularly known as Kabila, to the party when he undermined the party's presidential candidate, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, in the 2008 polls and rather showed open support for the NPP.
He stressed the need for the Central Committee of the party to institute disciplinary action against Mr Bomfeh, since the youth in the party had lost confidence in his leadership.
He believed that the CPP could have done better in the last presidential votes if not for some “selfish” members of the party whose apron strings, he said, were tied to other political parties.
Mr Mensah, who is a security consultant, said the country needed the CPP as a third force to neutralise the unhealthy political rivalry between the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP.
When the Daily Graphic contacted Mr Bomfeh for his reaction, he questioned the authority of Mr Mensah in the party to call for his resignation, since the party had structures through which he could make his case.
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