The United Party (UP) has urged “frustrated” New Patriotic Party (NPP) voters to back Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen for president, describing the NPP as a “moribund” party in crisis.
In a statement signed by its Director of Communications/Spokesperson, Solomon Owusu, the UP said the NPP’s current leadership crisis is the result of a “leadership succession conspiracy” that has now “degenerated into fisticuffs and loud shouting matches.”
The party said it predicted that the internal succession battles that led to Kyerematen’s exit from the NPP would ultimately “swallow its participants.”
It added that “revolutions tend to swallow their drivers,” and claimed the main protagonists in the NPP are now “at loggerheads” after distorting the natural flow of succession.
“After all, why waste a precious vote on a confused leadership? How can a leadership at loggerheads with itself help Ghana? The typical NPP vote deserves a home other than what’s on offer, and that home is a vote for Alan Kyerematen,” the statement said.
The party argued that a Kyerematen presidency would “herald an era of unprecedented development” by moving Ghana away from “primary commodity export and commercial buy and sell economic models” to an “enterprise economy.”
According to the UP, this would involve formalizing the informal sector, creating indigenous capital, enhancing technology and skills, overhauling the tax system, and improving health and education services.
“Ghana needs clear visioned, competent, transformational, and organizational leadership. That leader is Alan,” the party said, calling on all voters “irrespective of party affiliation, and especially distraught NPP voters” to support Kyerematen and vote UP to power.
The UP also urged voters to make independent choices at the polls.
“Voting booths are private spaces. We urge voters who go into the booths with certain party colours to use their thumbs privately and wisely to change and transform their personal lives.”
