Alan Kyerematen has officially resigned from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) with immediate effect.
He [Alan Kyerematen] further declared that he will run for the office of the President of the Republic of Ghana as an independent candidate.
He made this announcement today, September 25, 2023 at a press conference in Accra.
According to him, he 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.
He further indicated that he has devoted the best part of his professional career to serving the Party, and still believes in the vision of the founding fathers of the Party.
“However, the NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture,” he stated.
According to him, “the Party [NPP] has been hijacked by a selected group of Party leaders and elders, government appointees, behind the curtain power brokers and some unscrupulous Party apparatchiks”
“It was my fervent wish to use the vehicle of the Party to bring my God-given talents, experience, and knowledge acquired both locally and internationally over a period of 46 years, to serve our dear nation, Ghana at the highest level of executive authority,” he stated.
He further noted that despite the above, it is abundantly clear to him that his services and contributions to the Party are not appreciated and that his continuous stay in the Party will create further tension and division, which is an exact replay of the circumstances that led to his decision to resign from the Party in 2008.
He further declared that “Under the circumstances and given the context provided, I wish to use this platform to announce that I am honourably resigning with immediate effect from the New Patriotic Party to contest for the high office of the President of the Republic of Ghana in the 2024 General Elections, as an Independent Presidential Candidate.”
Alan Kyerematen had withdrawn from the party’s presidential race on September 5, 2023. He announced this decision to withdraw from the Presidential race of the NPP in a statement dated September 5, 2023, in which he catalogued a number of incidents he said occasioned the party’s Super Delegates Conference.
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Alan is right and precise. It is obvious Akufo Addo and his loyalists have hijacked hitherto a revered party worthy of its sort as a political party.
In recent times NPP has become a party of thugry, corruption, disrespectful and assaulting all the democratic credentials gained under the fourth republic. They abuse the public purse with impunity and politicizing every institution including the judiciary and EC by appointing known party guys. It has also succeeded in compromising rather vibrant CSO and some religious leaderships such as GBA, Peace Council, Catholic Bishops Conference and the Presby moderators who were on top of their voices under people centered party NDC.
Today Ghana, the then lower middle income economy is second to Sri Lanka, a bankrupt economy. It is about time we chase out this crop of NPP and jail anyone found to have misapply our resources.