The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is expected to address the media later Tuesday afternoon, September 26, 2023, on the decision of the former Minister for Trade and Industry and one time Presidential Candidate hopeful of the party to forfeit his membership and contest the 2024 presidential elections as an Independent candidate.
General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Kodua Frimpong has described as unfortunate the decision by the former Ambassador to the US, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten to resign from the party.
He also announced that the party has planned to officially respond to the resignation of Mr Kyeremanten on Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
Mr. Kyerematen announced his resignation from the NPP on Monday afternoon, and said he was leaving the party due to “unfair treatment towards himself and his supporters by some selected party stalwarts.”
He also alleged that the governing 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.
“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.
“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 stated at a press conference in Accra on Monday, September 25.
