The Central Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is meeting today and the uncertainty over the organisation of the party’s national delegates’ congress to elect national executive officers is expected to be high on the agenda. Another crucial issue expected to engage the attention of the committee members is the organisation of regional conferences in the Upper West, Western and Volta regions, to pave the way for the national delegates’ congress to take place. All the regions, except the three aforementioned ones, have organised conferences to elect their respective regional executive officers. Efforts to organise conferences in the three outstanding regions were aborted following disagreements on pertinent issues some of which bordered on violation of the party’s constitution. The leadership of the party is yet to resolve those nagging issues and fix dates for the conferences in those three regions, hence the indefinite postponement of the national delegates congress. This is about the sixth time the leadership of the party had postponed the congress since it was first scheduled to take place last April. The frequent postponement of the congress has been a great bother to some aspirants to national executive positions in respect of extra financial burden and disorganisation of their respective campaigns. Some members of the party have also expressed concern that the uncertainty over the organisation of the national delegates’ congress might affect the fortunes of the party in the 2012 general election, given the preparedness of the major political parties - the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the polls. Both parties have already elected their respective flag bearers for the 2012 general election, giving them a clear focus to campaign for elections. Following previous bitter experiences, the CPP had planned to depart from its convention of electing national executive officers and the party’s flag bearer at one congress and adopt a new approach to electing national executive officers first before the election of a flag bearer. To that end, the party had scheduled to organise a second national delegates’ congress in September this year, to elect its presidential candidate. However, with the dark clouds cast over the organisation of congress to elect national executive officers, the time table for the election of a presidential candidate appears to be in danger of amendment. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana