{"id":183386,"date":"2016-01-20T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=183386"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:41:53","slug":"sakara-is-still-a-cpp-member-party-chairman-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=183386","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Sakara is still a CPP member \u2013 Party Chairman insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Prof. Edmund Delle says he still considers former flagbearer, Dr Abu Sakara as a member of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sakara in a statement declared <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/01\/05\/abu-sakara-ditches-cpp-to-contest-as-independent-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\">he has left the party<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and will contest the November general elections as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rY1IDUAF4N5VepRto3kFLISJbgBJUUHQ&#8221;]He explained that he arrived at the decision following months of \u201ccontemplation\u201d and \u201cconsultations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Professor Delle told <strong>Citi News <\/strong>since Dr. Sakara is yet to officially communicate his decision to the party, he still considers him as a member of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I am concerned, as a National Chairman, Dr. Abu Sakara has not given me his letter of his resignation and I can tell you on pure evidence that he must have tried to write it and bring it to us but the Council of Elders stopped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying all the time to talk to him but as a Chairman, I do not have any evidence that he has resigned and I have particularly said that I consider him a member of the party till otherwise stated&#8230;For me officially he is still a member and a valid party official as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sakara was the running mate to Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom in the 2008 elections, but was elected as flag-bearer when Dr Nduom left the CPP to found his own party, the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Prof. Edmund Delle says he still considers former flagbearer, Dr Abu Sakara as a member of the party. Dr Sakara in a statement declared he has left the party and will contest the November general elections as an independent candidate. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rY1IDUAF4N5VepRto3kFLISJbgBJUUHQ&#8221;]He explained that he arrived at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}