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Ahead of the general elections in 2024, some members of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen’s Movement for Change in the Central have defected to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
At a press conference in Cape Coast, more than a hundred supporters announced their plans to leave the Movement for Change, citing the NPP’s various national development initiatives as the driving force for their choice.
The group decided to support NPP candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in his bid for president in 2024 because they thought he had a greater chance of winning than Alan Kyerematen, who they had previously backed during the presidential primaries.
Group leader Francis Edzie, who is now serving as the NPP’s polling station secretary in the Twi-Ndzi-Twi Jejem Electoral Area in Cape Coast South, stated that his colleagues have responded to calls from Bawumia’s national campaign team and are convinced that their choice is best for the party.
“We, the campaign team members of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, during the presidential primaries, have gathered here today. Some of us followed him to the Movement of Change when he withdrew from the presidential primaries. Upon advice from national campaign leadership, we, the youth in the Central Region, who campaigned for Alan and his Movement for Change, have decided to return to our mother party, the NPP.
“As former president John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor once said, it is better to be a messenger in a ruling party than to be a general secretary in a position party. NPP has undertaken numerous departmental projects within its almost eight-year term in office. We want the NPP to continue its progress rather than an opposition party that lacks direction.”
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
