What NPP’s Director of Elections Said About Alan Kyerematen’s Exit

The Director of Elections and Research for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Evans Nimako, has opened up on the resignation of Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, a former member of the party who aspired to become a flag bearer.

Mr. Nimako says the departure of Alan Kyerematen from the NPP has left an indelible mark on the party as they head towards the 2024 elections.

Mr. Kyerematen resigned from the NPP in September after the party’s Special Delegates’ Conference in August, where the presidential candidates were narrowed down to five.

He cited the intimidation of his supporters and the party being allegedly hijacked by a select few, thus forming his own Movement Party to contest the 2024 general elections as an independent presidential candidate.

According to the party’s Director of Elections, he would have wished the man who was part of the founding of the NPP would have stayed rather than resigning from the party.

He was, however, hopeful that Mr. Kyerematen would rescind his decision and return to the party since he is not a candidate yet despite his intention to contest the 2024 polls as an independent candidate.

“He has been a member of the party from its inception. He was part of the young executives. He has been into elections in this party at that level and not any other level but the presidential. He neither contested a national position nor an MP position. I wish Mr. Kyerematen had not left, but had stayed.

“But when the presidential elections committee was engaging with him and his agents, he pulled his resignation from the party. That’s about it. He intends to contest the 2024 election as an independent candidate on his Movement. As we speak, he’s not a candidate yet. Because it’s possible he will change his mind, that will be his decision. And so, for me, it has happened, and this is not the first time it has happened,” he said on Accra-based Citi TV.

Mr. Nimako also admitted there are several challenges confronting the party ahead of the 2024 general elections that seem insurmountable.

“NPP is certain that we are going into the elections with all these challenges. We are mindful of that,” the Director of Elections and Research of NPP said.

On November 20, 2023, the party announced that Hopeson Adorye, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, Nana Ohene Ntow, and Boniface Abubakar Saddique were no longer members of the party after they publicly endorsed and campaigned for the Independent presidential candidate, Alan Kyerematen.

The leadership said in a statement that the four had forfeited their membership in the party for their flagrant breach of the party’s Constitution, particularly Articles 3(5)(A)(4) and 3(9)(1).

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