Political analyst, Dr. Kobby Mensah has blamed the withdrawal of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen from the NPP presidential primaries on the failure of the party to appropriately deal with issues of electoral irregularities that had emerged in the super delegates’ conference.
According to him, the disciplinary committee’s focus on Kennedy Agyapong’s outburst as against the reasons for his outburst and the other complaints by aspirants contributed to Alan’s withdrawal.
He said Alan’s withdrawal is an indictment on the party and should call for some introspection.
“I think that the party was rather interested in Kennedy Agyapong’s outburst. If you look at the committee that was set up and the terms of references, even when most political watchers had said that they have to deal with some of the issues that have been leveled against the process, they were not quite ready to deal with that. So I don’t think they were prepared to deal with the issue,” he said on JoyFM’s NewsNight.
Also speaking on the show, Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante, a political scientist, said Alan’s withdrawal is definitely not the end of his political career.
According to him, the political stalwart’s decision only goes to reinforce his image as an honourable man.
“I’m not sure that is the case because he’s a man of honour and he wants to save his image. He believes that the whole process has been compromised one way or the other and so he did not want to be associated with such a process. Remember, we saw a similar thing done by Boakye Agyarko too so it speaks volumes as to what is happening within the NPP and it’s a big indictment on the party,” he said.
Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen withdrew from the NPP presidential race citing unfair treatment, electoral irregularities and bias.
In his letter announcing his withdrawal, he said “the level of intimidation of varying intensity, directly and indirectly unleashed on a significant number of delegates at various polling centres across the sixteen regions,” was another reason for his action.
Meanwhile, he has indicated that he will continue to play a role in Ghana’s political sphere going forward.
