CPP youth resolves to lock out Kabila’s office

The Concerned Youth Renaissance (CYR), a youth pressure group in the Convention People’s Party (CPP), that offered the party’s National Youth Organiser, Kwabena Bonfeh aka Kabila, a fourteen-day ultimatum, to humbly relinquish his post or incur their wrath, have resolved to lock up the latter’s office if he fails to resign by the close of the week.

The move, according to an insider, stems from the fact that Kabila has since remain adamant and continues to toot the horns of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in public instead of the CPP ever since he was called upon to unfold his sleeves and devote time to help salvage the ailing CPP from total collapse.

Reports, however say, ever since the threat was unleashed by the group which is mainly made up of students at the tertiary institutions to oust the embattled youth organiser from office, there have been several attempts by some party bigwigs to call for a truce but, it is glaring that their interventions would be ignored, Today’s findings have established.

However, interactions with non-executive but influential members of the group on Tuesday gave a broad indication that the youth will hold a press conference tomorrow Friday, 9th April, 2010 to warn Kabila to stave-off his office at the party’s headquarters in Accra, even though the party’s constitution frowns on the intended action.

“Plans are underway to tell him (Kabila) in plain words that he should keep off his office because we intend to take his office keys from him. We have had enough of Kabila’s incompetence and lack of ability to mobilize the youth in the party together.

…I think that the least said about Kabila the better it will be for all of us because we can no longer waste productive time on this guy who calls himself the youth organiser of our great party. How can such a discredited person be playing with our hearts and minds,” one of the irate youth told Today in confidence.

Tomorrow’s CYR press conference, Today gathered, will be used by the group to impress upon the National Executive Council (NEC) of the CPP to take a stern action against Mr Bonfeh.

Although Kabila in a knee-jerk reaction reportedly described the group’s earlier threat to remove him from office as a mere rhetoric, he has also impressed upon some party executives (names withheld) to intercede and calm the youth down since he is interested in running for the post of General Secretary of the party in the next delegates congress, and would therefore need the full backing of the youth, the paper gathered.

It would be recalled that the group a couple of days ago issued a press statement in which they described Kabila as ‘incompetent, useless and treacherous’ and therefore demanded his immediate removal from office or forcibly be removed.
The youth in the said statement disclosed that the latter upon assumption of office two-and-half years ago has become a stooge to the NPP and has also supervised the demise of more than 18 tertiary branches of the party.

The statement, which was signed by Fredrick Opoku, spokesperson of the group, wondered why “a non- performing person like Kwabena Bonfeh whose utterances and behaviours have always subjected the CPP to public ridicule is allowed to stay on as National Youth Organiser of the party.”

“Our call for his resignation as the youth leader stems from his gross incompetence and negligence in the exercise of his duty as the leader of the youth wing,” the statement affirmed.

The statement reminded both Kabila and the CPP leadership of the role the youth in the CPP played in ensuring a resounding electoral victory for the party in the 1951 general election, and wondered why the same cannot be replicated by the party’s youth this time around.

In the estimation of the group in the release, the same cannot be assured because under the inept leadership of Bonfeh, the party youth have been abandoned and relegated to the background, a situation the group believed has made the youth irrelevant to the party’s leadership in their decision making and organization.

The statement further called on the party’s leadership to bring all factions within the CPP together in order to be able to prosecute urgently, the task of rebuilding towards the “agenda of wrestling political power in the neare future.”