“President Kufuor did not bring me into politics,” a 2024 independent presidential hopeful, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has clarified. This follows a widely held assertion that tagged Mr. Kyerematen’s political career to the second president of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
Speaking on New Day on TV3 Wednesday, September 27, 2023, the former Trade and Industry minister denied the assertion that former President John Agyekum Kufuor positioned him at an advantageous place in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to climb through the political ladder smoothly.
He has disclosed that he was not Kufuor’s darling boy as was being speculated.
He said “sometimes, I talk to him and he feels really hurt,” adding that “I think it is unfair to [former] President Kufuor but unfortunately this has continued for a very long time until he exited.”
Mr. Kyerematen was speaking on his resignation from the NPP which he is a founding member, following some anomalies in the NPP he drew leadership’s attention on but were overlooked.
According to him, prior to the party’s special delegates’ conference, he donated GHC500,000.00 to the leadership to compile an album for delegates to verify their details before the election could take place. But his advise was not taken despite giving out the money.
Also, his polling agents were harassed at the August 26 special conference but no punitive measures were meted out to those who committed such deeds that are affront to the regulations of the elephant fraternity.
Mr. Kyerematen, after pulling out of the final phase of the presidential primary announced his resignation –the second time after resigning in 2008 –from the NPP, formed the Movement for Change to contest the 2024 presidential elections.
Meanwhile, Dr. Kwasi Amakye Boateng of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has corroborated Mr. Kyerematen’s assertion of the special delegates’ conference saying it lacked everything democracy.
