The Welfare Director of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Ms Harriet Anita Abaidoo, has left the CPP to join the Progressive People's Party (PPP) founded by Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom.
She named “factionalism in the party, intimidation and manipulation by some executives†as the major reasons that led her to resign from the CPP after nine years of membership.
A copy of her letter of resignation also pointed out that “this serves to inform you of my decision to resign from the CPP with immediate effect; this decision which is personal-driven is irreversible, and has been arrived at after a long period of thought and self-examination.â€
She, however, thanked the National Chairman of the CPP, Prof. Edmund Delle, and the flag bearer of the party for the 2016 election, Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, for making her stay in the party a bit better for her during the last nine years.
When asked the key reasons why she was leaving the CPP with barely four months to this year’s polls, Ms Abaidoo accused the First Vice Chairperson of the party, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim, as being the brain behind many of the problems that had bedevilled the party.
Pushed to the wall to talk, she said her decision to leave the party was heavily influenced by the "personal attacks and continuous confrontation†between the two.
She also pointed out that with "few months to the election, some members of the party, instead of focusing on how to win the election and assisting its parliamentary candidates, were focusing on division."
Why PPP?
Ms Abaidoo said she chose to join the PPP because she had realised after the departure of Dr Nduom from the party that "he (Nduom) was never the problem in CPP as she and other members of the party were made to believe."
"Some of us were told that Dr Nduom was the reason why CPP was unattractive but I was expecting that his departure should have solved CPP’s problems and brought us closer and together but that is not the case now. Our problem is growing bigger each day," Ms Abaidoo said and asked why it was so.
She said the PPP under Dr Nduom was day in day out growing to become a much focused, disciplined and visibly attractive national political party that preached all-inclusive government.
Brief profile
Ms Abaidoo is a businesswoman who joined the CPP in 2007. After serving the party well, she became the Okaikoi South Constituency Vice Chairman of the party.
In the 2012 election, she contested as the Parliamentary Candidate of CPP for Okaikoi South where she lost to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). candidate.
Prior to her resignation, Ms Abaidoo was the welfare director of the party.Daily Graphic reports
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