Regional organisers of the NPP met
me to discuss the way forward for the
party recently. At that meeting I
explained why I want to lead the
party.
My experience in business and
politics provides the background to
my decision to be the flag bearer for
the NPP, the party I love so much.
I really want to change the culture of
the party and reinvigorate its winning
spirit to get the party into
government, come 2016. In 22 years,
between 1992 and 2014, there have
been six general elections, granting
six clear opportunities for NPP to win
elections and form the government
but we were successful only on two
occasions.
What is even worse — the misfortune
of being in perpetual opposition has
been treated as nothing more than a
staging opportunity in self-
aggrandisement for the few who profit
in self-promotion and popularity at
the expense of the election
misfortunes of the Party (NPP). They
then, turn round to blame others.
NPP in government from 2000 – 2008
had a strategy to raise Ghana’s
national performance by promoting
the private sector, improving the
workings of markets through
deregulation and fair competition
policy; and effectively controlling
inflation.
Not many people were more
committed to this programme than I
was. And I believe destiny beckons
that I play an important role with a
more comprehensive and dynamic
strategy to attract floating voters to
vote for the NPP in 2016. There
appears to be too little understanding
of just how far down NPP has slipped
in votes between 2008 and 2012.
From the levels of dominating and
winning almost seven regions out of
the 10 regions in 2004, we now have
only the Ashanti and Eastern regions,
and the statistics keep declining. We
must put a stop to this and reverse
the trend.
The reality in this matter should not
become emotive. The challenge is for
the party to change direction and
explain frankly what happened over
the years – 2008 and 2012. We must
understand that if we continue to do
the same things in the same way; no
matter how many times it is done we
achieve the same result. Failure and
disappointment!
Indeed, we have to change attitudes
and replace the traditional
conservative view that ‘we are doing
fine let us just hold on for a while
longer,’ with a realistic appraisal of
our operating performance against our
arch political opponent. In plain
truth, a greater commitment is needed
and the solution is to find the right
person to lead the party to victory in
2016.
This right person, I can assure you, is
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen.
In a letter such as this, it is not
possible to cover every salient point
that I intend to introduce to rebuild
our party (NPP) and ultimately win
the Presidency of Ghana one touch.
In fact, space can only allow me to
list just one major policy decision
each for the party (NPP) and the
country.
For the party, I shall introduce an
immediate reward system for all party
workers to receive salary and
appropriate campaign training to
ensure clear victory in 2016. Whereas,
for the country, my main pre-
occupation will be my flagship
ambition of promoting
industrialisation in Ghana where the
government will initiate and build
industries and then hand them over
to private entrepreneurs who are
better managers than the government,
to take over and run.
Indeed, if delegates will put their
trust in me and elect me as the 2016
flag-bearer, I promise in return to win
the presidency one touch. Of this, I
am so convinced. After all, day in day out, in all these years the party has been anxiously waiting to win the presidency and not just to inflate personal egos of individuals.
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