{"id":227319,"date":"2016-07-02T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227319"},"modified":"2016-07-02T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:22:47","slug":"cpp-youth-to-petition-party-over-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/cpp-youth-to-petition-party-over-suspensions\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP youth to petition party over suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Youth League of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), has said it will petition the party\u2019s leadership over the\u00a0suspension<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of its National Youth Organizer, Ernesto Yeboah and General Secretary, Nii Armah Akomfrah.<\/p>\n The two were suspended after they publicly contradicted the party\u2019s flagbearer, Ivor Greenstreet, over President John Mahama\u2019s Ford Expedition saga as well as petitioning the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ, to investigate the President.<\/p>\n The two have also been accused of publicly chastising and humiliating the party\u2019s flagbearer in the media after Mr. Greenstreet reportedly dismissed claims<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that the Ford Expedition gift to the President amounted to bribery.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”t7Pq9PGOIX4jHARcLFBDNd0MCJvgsNnp”]The party insists that, the said the petition was a unilateral one that did not reflect its stance on the issue.<\/p>\n Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> however, Secretary to the CPP\u2019s Youth League, Hardi Yakubu, said the youth will not relent until the decision to suspend the two is reversed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will in the coming days, following an official communication on the reasons for the suspension, we will seek to petition the leadership of the party to take a second look at the decisions. Because we think that, it is a very crucial moment at this point and we cannot have national officers being suspended at this crucial moment of the election year.\u201d<\/p>\n The Youth League in a separate statement said it \u201cstands shoulder to shoulder with Ernesto Yeboah and Nii Armah Akomfrah\u201d since \u201cwe believe that they spoke and acted in the best interest of the party and of Ghanaians in general.”<\/p>\n