CPP can never support corruption – Delle

National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Professor Edmund Delle, has refuted claims he is condoning corruption after two national officers of the party were suspended for speaking against the President.

He says the CPP since it was founded by the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, has been against corruption and he will not change that.

“CPP was the first party in this country to say to each man, one house and one car. Nkrumah was strong on this and I was brought up as a young pioneer and I have imbibed this all my life. The CPP can never support corruption,” he told Joy News’ Raymond Acquah.

Two CPP national officers namely General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfrah and the National Youth Organiser, Ernesto Kofi Yeboah were suspended by the party’s Central Committee (CC) for allegedly taking a position on an issue that is at variance with that of the party.

The duo commenting on a Ford scandal in which President John Mahama was gifted a Ford Expedition vehicle valued at $100,000 by a Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe called for an investigation into the matter.

Mr Yeboah later led the Youth League of the party to petition the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the President.

This contradicted the position of the party’s flagbearer Ivor Kobina Greenstreet who said he did not see anything wrong with the President receiving the gift.

The party later blamed the duo for gross misconduct and went ahead to suspend them. Later not even the recommendation by the party’s Disciplinary Committee, which went into the issue, that the duo is reinstated was enough to change the mind of the party’s CC.

Mr Delle was blamed for refusing to go by the recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee, but he says he was unfairly accused.

He says he was never against what the duo did; but that they failed to follow the party’s laid down procedure.

“If you want to do something like that pass through the right channel in the party, go through the correct procedure and the Constitution says it clear,” he said.

He said they have appealed to the duo to “put down their arms and let us jaw-jaw and resolve the issue,” but they are not listening.

He has invited the duo once more to follow the right procedures for their grievances to be resolved for peace to return to the party.

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