Accra (Greater Accra), 6Th July 99 --

Five persons, including a member of the defunct PNDC will contest the National Chairmanship of the Convention Party (CP) when it goes to congress to elect its national officers at the University of Ghana, next Saturday, July 10.

According to a programme released by the Party's secretariat in Accra to the GRi on Tuseday, the positions National Chairman, National Vice-Chairman, General Secretary and National Treasurer, will be open for election for officer who will steer the party into the next millennium.

Vying for the post of National Chairman are Mr Ebo Tawiah, a former member of the PNDC, and the octagenerian Professor Mawusi Dake, also a former PNDC Secretary. The others are Dr E .N Delle, a skin disease specialist, Dr Abubakar Alhassan, of the University of Ghana and Supi Bentsi Enchil a businessman.

The three positions of National Vice-Chairman has drawn six spirants in the persons of Messrs Felix Amoah, a Minister in Third Republic, P.K Donkor Aryifli, a former acting national Chairman of the People's Convention Party which merged with the National Convention Party to form the CP, and hotellier and former broadcaster, Mike Eghan.

The rest are Mr Kwesi Prempeh, Owusu Sekyere and Major Agbeko Sedziafa all stalwarts of the Convention Peoples Party from which the CP claims its roots.

The position of General Secretary, is a straight fight between the incumbent Dr Nii Noi Dowuona and Mr Kwasi Badoo, while Mr Martin Donkor and Mr Kwadwo Danquah sort it out for the post of National Treasurer.

The congress which will be preceded by an Executive Council meeting on Friday, July 9 at the University of Ghana, will pave the way for the election of the Party's presidential candidate and Members of Parliament for the 2000 elections.

 

About a month ago the CP had to cancel the Congress because it was challenged at the courts by some of its members who claimed that the party had not completed the election of officers in all the regions and therefore could not go hold a national delegates congress since it will contravene its constitution.

That action was thrown out of court thus paving the way for next Saturday's elections

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