Former Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, hopes for the best for former presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) following his exit from the ruling party.
On September 25, Alan Kyerematen resigned from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to run for the presidential seat as an independent candidate.
“I wish to use this platform to announce that I am 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,” he said.
He cited reasons for his breakaway, stressing that the New Patriotic Party has proven to him that his “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”.
Reacting to this position by Alan, Charles Owusu, who solidly supported his bid to become NPP flagbearer, in a melancholic tone, extended his well-wishes to Alan Kyerematen on his new political endeavor.
“We were all with him in an NPP vehicle heading somewhere and all of a sudden, he got off from the vehicle…who am I to remain in the vehicle?”, he said proverbially.
“I wish him well,” he emphasized while contributing to Peace FM’s morning show “Kokrokoo”.
Meanwhile, Mr Alan Kyerematen is of the assertion that “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”.