Despite Alan Kyerematen leaving the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hilda Addo, a former Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency, has endorsed him.
In an interview, Madam Addo emphasized that Alan is currently the finest candidate to lead the nation. She had faith that the NPP would recognize Alan’s importance and suffer from Alan’s absence and declared her support for Mr. Kyerematen.
“Though I am a member of the NPP, I will do open campaign for Alan,” she said.
She said it was their turn to work together to create a nation that would allow for efficient development. In a startling change of events, Alan Kyerematen, the former Minister of Trade and Industry, quit the party on Monday, September 25, 2023.
The former Kwadaso NPP Member of Parliament attributed Alan’s departure to ineffective party leadership. According to Madam Hilda Addo, the party has been making risky blunders, one of which led to Alan’s departure.
She added that she did not worry about the party expelling her due to her decision to support the former trade minister.
“I don’t care if leadership of the party expel me from the party.”
Hilda Addo
Alan Kyerematen Resigns From NPP
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen (popularly called Alan Cash) is a Ghanaian politician, a corporate executive, a diplomat, and an international public servant. Kyerematen has made attempts to win the party’s leadership since 1996. However, he first made a formal attempt at the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in 2007, capturing 32.3% of votes cast.
He was first runner-up to Nana Akufo-Addo who gained 47.96% of votes cast. Mr. Kyerematen made a second attempt at the Party’s leadership in 2010 and he placed second to Nana Akufo-Addo who won the Primaries.
Following his disappointing third position in the 2023 NPP Super Delegates Conference, he withdrew from the race to become a flagbearer of the NPP and announced his intentions to announce his future in the Ghanaian politics.
Subsequently, Mr Kyerematen announced his resignation from the NPP in Accra at a press conference. The former Trade Minister’s decision comes at the back of his realization that his contributions were no longer needed in the party. Also, he alleged that his followers have since 2008 suffered violence and brutality from government cronies.
Despite his attempts to get the attention of the leadership of the party to resolve the situation, little has been done till now.
Alan has thus formed a movement, Movement for Change with a butterfly as the symbol to deliver his presidential ambitions to him in the 2024 General elections.
The former Trade Minister and former flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Alan Kyerematen, formally resigned from the party and expressed his intention to contest in the 2024 general elections as an independent candidate.
“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
In addressing the press at a long-awaited forum to tell the nation his future in Ghana’s politics, he indicated that the NPP has little semblance to the party he joined in 1992. He mentioned that the party has been hijacked by government apparatchiks, hence his breakaway.
He further indicated that the just-ended Super Delegates Conference was skewed in favour of one candidate. This and other issues of violence and brutalities arising from the NPP Super Delegates Conference in August has made it clear to the former Trade Minister to resign from the party.
“It was absolutely clear … that the super delegates conference was strategically and tactically skewed, maneuvered in favour of one particular candidate.”
Alan Kyerematen
Mr. Kyerematen has since formed a movement, Movement for Change with butterfly as its symbol, which is set to deliver to the former Trade Minister’s presidential ambitions.
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