The disgruntled former Presidential Candidate aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has announced his resolved to resign from the governing party with immediate effect. The former Trade and Industry Minister consequently announced a new Movement for Change in Ghana.
In a national broadcast on Monday, [September 25], Mr. Kyerematen said he joined the NPP from the beginning in 1992 believing in its core values and the long-standing traditions of its antecedents, predicated on fairness, equity, probity, accountability, and transparency.
In his view however, the NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture, alleging that 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.
“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” he lamented.
The former Ambassador to the United States of America indicated, “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.”
“It is abundantly clear to me, that my services and contributions to the Party are not appreciated, and that my continuous stay in the Party will create further tension and division, which is an exact replay of circumstances that led to my decision to resign from the Party in 2008” Mr. Kyerematen posited.
To actualize his presidential ambition, the former Minister of Trade said: “ I will establish and lead a new MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE in Ghana. The brand logo for the MOVEMENT is the Monarch Butterfly, which politically symbolizes change and transformation, hope, and positivity. It also communicates strength, endurance, spirituality, and trust, which are key traits that I cherish as a Political Leader. In Akan, it is known as Afrafranto. The brand motto of the MOVEMENT is “Ghana Will Rise Again,” which symbolizes hope for the future of Ghana.”
He further explained, “the new Movement will be led and powered by the youth of Ghana out of the over 17 million registered voters in the 2020 general election, the youth aged 18-35, years constituted over 9.4 million voters representing 55% (Fifty five percent) of the total voters.”
