Alan's Breakaway a 'Complete Farce' . . . Nobody Is Panicking In NPP - Nana Akomea
NPP stalwart and Chief Executive Officer of the State Transport Corporation, Nana Akomea shares a strong view that Alan Kyerematen's defection from the New Patriotic Party will have no significant effect on the party's political fortunes.
Alan Kyerematen, at a press conference on Monday, September 25, announced he has severed ties 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 emphasized he is "honourably resigning with immediate effect from the NPP to contest for the high office of the President of the Republic of Ghana as an independent presidential candidate".
Alan's breakaway, to some critics, won't augur well for the NPP but Nana Akomea dissents to such comments.
He doesn't believe Alan deserting the NPP will result in a mass exodus of the party's members and supporters nor his exit affect the party in any negative manner.
To him, Alan doesn't command power as people think he does in the New Patriotic Party.
Nana Akomea cited the votes that Alan polled in their Special Delegates Congress asserting it proves how little the impact of his separation from NPP will have on the party.
The STC boss expressed no fears over Alan forming a new movement to compete with the NPP in next year's 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.
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