Let’s bring Alan back to NPP – Majority leader

The majority leader in Ghana’s Parliament, Osei-Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, says the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should find practical ways to bring back defected party member Alan Kyerematen.

Alan Kyerematen, despite his resignation, can return to the party if punitive measures are imposed, according to him.

He went on to say that Alan Kyerematen is one of the party’s pillars, with whom they should not part ways.

He admonished that the rank and file of the party should try all possible means to bring him back to the rooot of the party, even if there is a slim opportunity to do so.

“I think that every effort must be made, even if it’s a one percent possibility. Let’s see what comes out of it. We are talking about Alan’s situation, where we are saying that let’s still engage if he comes back. To now go into specifics will be a difficulty; it may hamper the reconciliation I’m suggesting.

“It’s possible to bring him back,” he said.

Alan Kyerematen, who was one of the leading members of the NPP on September 25, 2023, pulled out of the party to run as an independent presidential candidate.

Alan has made it categorically clear that, even though it was his ambition to become the president of Ghana on the ticket of the NPP, the party has now been hijacked by ‘unscrupulous party apparatchiks’.

“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.

“I wish to use this platform to announce that I am honorably resigning from the New Patriotic Party to contest for the high office of the President of the Republic of Ghana in the 2024 general elections as an independent presidential candidate,” he said.

By Lawrence Odoom