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Alan Kyerematen, a former trade minister and unsuccessful NPP candidate for president, claims to be the person who can turn around Ghana’s economy.
On Monday, September 25, Alan announced his resignation from the NPP with immediate effect and his intention to run as an independent in the 2024 elections.
“I believe, with unwavering conviction, that I am the only leader who, with unmatched integrity, can guarantee the economic and industrial transformation of Ghana, the restoration of confidence in political leadership, and the unification of an increasingly divided nation,” Mr Kyerematen stated.
“I am using this platform to introduce myself to you, the good people of Ghana and humbly seek your support to become the next President of the Republic of Ghana.”
According to Mr. Kyerematen, his Advantage centers on “vision, competence, integrity, and action.”
He claimed that the nation’s persistent employment crisis is progressively turning into a threat to national security.
This, he claimed, was demonstrated by the three-day “Occupy Julorbi House” demonstrations that the Accra-based Democracy Hub organized.
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
