The former flagbearer aspirant in the New Patriotic Party 2023 Presidential primaries, Mr. Boakye Agyarko has admonished the New Patriotic to use the resignation by the former Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen as a moment of thorough examination of the state of the party.
The former Minister of Energy under the first term of President Akuffo Addo’s administration warned against the party not to display any form of arrogance aftermath of Mr. Alan Kyerematen’s resignation.
“The unfortunate departure of Alan Kyerematen from our ranks must serve a necessary and sufficient notice to us all and lead us to a time of deep introspection rather than a time of gloating or the display of triumphalist arrogance”.
Baokye Agyarko
According to Mr Boakye Agyarko, the history of the tradition of the New Patriotic Party must teach the party the consequences of the resignation of Mr Alan Kyerematen from the party to contest as an independent candidate in the 2024 General Elections.
“The history of our tradition must teach us that the consequences of events such as has now befallen us since the heady days of 1951 to date have always been negative and have cast a deep and lingering shadow on our electoral fortunes”.
Boakye Agyarko
Boakye Agyarko Admonishes NPP Leadership To Embrace Unity
Mr. Agyarko also indicated that many people in the New Patriotic Party have, out of dismay resigned in their hearts from the party and are only waiting to walk from the party at the ballot box in 2024 General Election.
He cautioned the party against any form of neglect about the reservations raised by Mr. Alan Kyerematen, after his withdrawal from the party’s internal primaries and his subsequent resignation from the party. He believes several other people may have similar reservations to that of Mr. Alan Kyerematen but due to fear of intimidation or the interest of the party have decided not to express them.
“At least my brother Kyerematen has put his thoughts and feelings on paper for all to appreciate. How about the many who harbour similar and maybe more petulant sentiment in their hearts but are not openly expressing the same”.
Baokye Agyarko
Mr. Agyarko therefore admonished the party leadership to use the resignation of Mr. Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen to examine itself to know whether the party still adhere to its tenets and values based upon which the party was formed.
“Now is the time to smoothen ruffled feathers and assuage wounded sentiment across the length and breadth of our party, Now is the time to examine ourselves if indeed we are true and faithful to the tenets and values of the UP tradition or if we have metamorphosed into an ugly shadow of what we should be”.
Boakye Agyarko
He stressed on the need for the party leadership to take urgent steps to address all concerns that have emerged after the party’s Super Delegate Election and the resignation of Mr Alan Kyerematen.
Meanwhile, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has lamented the lack of discipline and the party’s abandoning of its basic development-oriented objectives.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said that all the patriotic ideals and heroes of the NPP have been replaced by a group of avaricious individuals who are only interested in acquiring wealth and real estate for themselves rather than cooperating to advance the nation.
“When the party was founded, the leaders of the party were giants and when you saw them, you respected them. Even the youth organiser of the party was a gentleman, a lawyer, and even though he was a bit older than the youth, they did not talk roughly, and they were not greedy people looking for properties and whatnot, and we don’t have those people in the party again.”
Dr Nyaho Nyahao-Tamakloe
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe also voiced his displeasure with the party’s present decision-making procedure, which he claimed had been taken over by the President.
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