The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, also known as Nana Bee, has contested several of the assertions made by former party member Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen in his resignation statement.
Nana Bee suggested that Kyerematen may have fabricated or embellished some of his reasons in an attempt to make them more appealing to the Ghanaian public.
“For me some of these assertions are not backed by facts,” Mr Nana Boakye said on Monday, September 25.
“They are not backed by evidence, so I think that yes he intended to leave so certain reasons must be orchestrated and conjured so that he will hang these personal decisions, the rationale behind it on the orchestrations and conjecturings.”
The former NPP National Youth Organiser responded to the earlier announcement made by the former flagbearer hopeful of the party, where he declared his resignation and intention to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming elections.
Mr. Kyerematen cited that the NPP has undergone significant changes since he first joined the party in 1992.
“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,” he told his supporters in the presence of some journalists at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra.
“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.”
Mr Nana Boakye challenged Mr Kyerematen’s claims.
“I think the party has been very faithful to Hon Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen. The party has been extremely appreciative for his services.”
In his view, the former minister should acknowledge that there is a growing wave of support for a new leader within the party.
“That is democracy. When the people decide, they decide.”