While ques­tions cir­cu­late over who is re­al­ly in charge of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) at present, the par­ty says they are go­ing through a tran­si­tion pe­ri­od.

The state­ment came yes­ter­day, af­ter con­flict­ing an­nounce­ments from the par­ty’s in­ter­im chair­man Lons­dale Williams, who last week an­nounced the re­turn of COP’s for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader Prakash Ra­mad­har as the new in­ter­im leader, be­fore chang­ing his tune on Sun­day to say the ex­ec­u­tive had not yet met and de­cid­ed on the mat­ter.

In an­oth­er re­lease yes­ter­day, the par­ty said it was go­ing through a process of tran­si­tion and re­build­ing.

The COP stat­ed, “The in­ter­im po­lit­i­cal leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple takes note of the re­ports be­ing car­ried in the me­dia re­gard­ing a press re­lease by the act­ing in­ter­im chair­man of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple, and wish­es to state that these mat­ters are be­ing treat­ed in­ter­nal­ly, and are part of the tran­si­tion and re­build­ing process and in due time, a full state­ment would be is­sued on these and oth­er mat­ters.”

Last Thurs­day, how­ev­er, COP an­nounced Ra­mad­har’s re­turn to the helm and said he had re­placed Kirt Sin­nette, who re­signed from the po­si­tion of in­ter­im po­lit­i­cal leader af­ter ap­point­ing Ra­mad­har as his deputy and then new in­ter­im leader.

The par­ty al­so an­nounced it was part of the Pro­gres­sive Al­liance (PA), which in­cludes Gary Grif­fith’s Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith’s HOPE.

Then 72 hours lat­er, Williams is­sued an­oth­er re­lease con­tra­dict­ing his ini­tial an­nounce­ment, this time say­ing no in­ter­im po­lit­i­cal leader was cho­sen.

Guardian Me­dia sought fur­ther ex­pla­na­tion from Ra­mad­har but he did not di­vulge any more de­tails.

How­ev­er, Sin­nette re­mains adamant that Ra­mad­har was in charge al­though the par­ty’s na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive did not sanc­tion the change in lead­er­ship.

Ra­mad­har served as COP’s po­lit­i­cal leader from 2011 to 2016.