“NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992” – Alan Kyerematen

Alan Kyerematen, a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer candidate, was forthright in his announcement that he would leave the party and run as an independent in the 2024 election.

Because of recent occurrences like what happened in 2008, Alan claimed that one of the reasons he made the choice to leave the NPP was because he had realized that the party did not value his contributions to it.

He claimed that certain individuals have taken control of the party and abandoned its founding principles.

“However, the NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture. The Party has been hijacked by a selected group of Party leaders and elders, government appointees, “behind the curtain power brokers” and some unscrupulous Party apparatchiks,” he said.

The presidential primaries were “strategically and tactically skewed in favor of one particular aspirant,” he continued, because the party did not move to stop the intimidation and commercialization that pervaded the convention.

“I joined the New Patriotic Party at the very beginning of its establishment as a Founding Member, believing in its core values and the long-standing traditions of its antecedents, predicated on fairness, equity, probity, accountability, and transparency. I have devoted the best part of my professional career to serving the Party, and I still believe in the vision of the founding fathers of the Party.

On Monday, September 25, 2023, Alan Kyeremateng made his decision to leave the NPP and run as an independent in the 2024 presidential elections known during a press conference in Accra.

Despite his desire to run for president of Ghana on the NPP’s ticket, he said that the party had been taken over by “unscrupulous party apparatchiks.”

“The NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture. The Party has been hijacked by a selected group of Party leaders and elders, government appointees, “behind the curtain power brokers” and some unscrupulous Party apparatchiks.

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com