Smear campaign against Nduom

…At Jomoro Constituency

Some CPP elements in the Jomoro Constituency of the Western Region are waging wicked and vicious campaign against the party’s presidential candidate in the 2008 elections, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom.

The activists, led by one Peter Enderson, a former CPP Campaign Manager in the Jomoro Constituency, claim Dr Nduom is collaborating with the constituency chairman of the CPP,
Francis Tanoe, to handpick people as ward executives.

According to him, the move constitutes a grand agenda by the former flag bearer to influence the selection of party executives at the constituency level, who would in turn vote Dr Nduom as the party’s flag bearer for the 2012 elections.

However, Mr Tanoe, the supposed Nduom collaborator, has denied any such act, stating that although the Western Regional Secretariat of the CPP has instructed constituencies to conduct elections to select ward officers, the Jomoro executives had not started the exercise because they did not have vehicles to go round the communities to do so.

But the said former campaign manager claims more than six communities in the Jomoro Constituency have had ward executives each comprising five members, handpicked without conducting any formal elections.

Although he confirmed that Dr Nduom was in the Constituency on 4thNovember this year, as alleged by the Jomoro CPP campaign manager, Mr Tanoe explained that the former CPP flag bearer had come to Jomoro to look for a building to open a bank in the district.

Dr Nduom himself has registered his strongest protest yet on the matter. He has written to CPP Chairman, Mr Ladi Nylander, requesting for an independent enquiry into the allegations.
Copies of the letter had been sent to other executive members of the party. Independent investigations by TODAY have corroborated the answers provided by Mr Tanoe on the issue.

Dr Nduom, this paper gathered, is on a nationwide tour to boost up his businesses and his visit to Jomoro was primarily for that purpose. As if he knew about the implications of meeting with party members on such trips, Dr Nduom has deliberately traveled quietly without notification to any CPP member.

He has made business trips to areas in the Greater Accra, Central, Western and the three Northern Regions as well as the Eastern, Brong Ahafo and Ashanti Regions.

However, in the case of his Jomoro visit, news got round that the former CPP flag bearer was in the Jomoro Constituency, precisely Half Assini and that threw the entire township into frenzy with the CPP members making every frantic efforts to get at him.

He could not ignore them and indeed interacted with them and sought their opinion as indigenes of the Constituency, which area in the Jomoro Constituency would be most suitable for his business interest.