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Alan Kyerematen’s departure from the New Patriotic Party won’t significantly affect the party’s political fortunes, according to NPP stalwart and CEO of the State Transport Corporation Nana Akomea.
On Monday, September 25, Alan Kyerematen declared at a press conference that he had broken all relations with the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“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.
” . . 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 expressed his disappointment in the NPP.
Alan highlighted that he is “honorably resigning with immediate effect from the NPP to run as an independent presidential candidate for the high office of the President of the Republic of Ghana.”
According to some opponents, Alan’s split won’t be good for the NPP, but Nana Akomea disagrees.
He doesn’t think Alan leaving the NPP will lead to a large exodus of the party’s members and supporters, nor does he think his departure would have a negative impact on the party.
He doesn’t believe Alan has the same influence within the New Patriotic Party as people do.
The votes Alan received in their Special Delegates Congress, according to Nana Akomea, show how little of an influence his leaving the NPP will have on the party. The head of STC said he had no concerns about Alan starting a rival group to the NPP in the upcoming elections.
” . . in NPP nobody is panicking…even the stalwarts who were behind Alan are standing firm in the party, so nobody is shaking,” he told Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM’s morning show “Kokrokoo”.
He, however, prayed that Alan Kyerematen maybe “will change his mind” and return to the NPP.
SOURCE:Radiooneghana.com
