Abilolo writes: Swallow your Pride NPP! Alan Kyerematen Remains Your Best Bet You Can't Have!

In September 2023, I wrote an article titled “When Interests Collide: Alan from the Chasm”, shortly after the Honorable Alan Kyerematen withdrew from the NPP’s flagbearer race. It was a moment of heartbreak, disbelief, and pain. A moment that exposed; even more than any press release or televised debate could, the moral decline and factional rot within the New Patriotic Party, a party we so loved and served.

That piece captured the widespread disillusionment of thousands of Ghanaians who had clung to Alan as a statesman above partisanship, a visionary untainted by the petty intrigues that had seized control of the once-principled party. Alan’s departure from the internal race was not a retreat nor surrender; it was a declaration of independence from a system that no longer valued character, competence, or vision.

Now, almost two years later, while we behold the true height of the frog at death, as the old adage would have it, the NPP sits bruised and rudderless. The man they mocked, sidelined, and vilified has become their greatest regret; a symbol of that leader they lost and what they cannot replicate. And yet, in all their posturing and bitterness towards Alan, one truth remains unspoken: they pushed him out. Not for a lack of popularity, but because he represented a threat to the status quo! A man too sincere, too competent, too unyielding in principle to be controlled.

Well, I have Good News for Ghana! Alan Kyerematen is still alive and standing! Not as a casualty of NPP infighting, but as the most qualified Ghanaian to lead in this critical era of recovery. In “When Interests Collide”, I asked: “Why continue to yield to deliberately skewed processes to kill his dream?” That question still echoes, louder now in the ears of the simpleminded folks who jeered as he stepped aside, thinking they had won. But time has come to reveal they have not won. They have only been exposed of their fears; fears of a man whose ideas, poise, and transformative agenda for Ghana cannot be bought or buried.

Maybe we should revisit what made Alan a threat to entrenched interests of those once so powerful and cut off from reality, earning them gross humiliation.He was the first candidate to lay out a clear, pragmatic, and ambitious vision for Ghana’s future through the Great Transformational Plan (GTP). While others pandered with empty slogans, Alan provided a roadmap: macroeconomic stability, industrialization, sound digitization, a green agenda, and youth-centered reforms. His GTP was not a campaign gimmick. It was a governing blueprint that resonated with the Ghanaian dream and aspirations.

But in a party that had sold itself to loyalty to the highest bidder no matter the source of their wealth, over admirable leadership, that vision was treated with contempt.Worse still, even after his exit from the NPP, the establishment sought to sabotage his new path he charted under the Movement for Change. In the last election, Alan’s polling agents were systematically denied accreditation. A blatant subversion of the democratic process. The EC’s last-minute bureaucratic hurdles, like requiring an introductory letter signed by Alan himself who was deep in the hinterlands campaigning, and ID cards from Polling Agents of a movement barely a year old, were not mere oversight. They were calculated attempts to cripple his efforts and image.And yet, they accuse him rather of betrayal and disloyalty!?

Again in my article, “When Interests Collide”, I noted how Alan’s departure spared the NPP from what could have been Ghana’s version of the infamous 18th-century “Spendthrift Election,” where money, not merit, decided outcomes. Alan refused to participate in a charade. He refused to mortgage his integrity for a party election wired against him from the start. And for that, he gets vilified? Let us judge with good conscience!

To speak plainly: the Akufo-Addo administration’s overreach and abuse of party structures created the very rift that led to Alan’s exit. His principled stand was not just against Bawumia’s candidacy, but against the total erosion of internal democracy and the death of the Danquah-Busia tradition. What Alan demanded; fairness, respect, and reforms were met with disdain. Poodles of the powers that be, had the nerves to raise contradictions when Alan directed the party returned to its founding principles! Now that the party has lost both public trust and internal cohesion, it turns to blame the very man who warned them.But Ghana is watching!

We are a nation standing at a precipice burdened by debt, drained by brain drain, and crushed under the weight of leadership failure. As I wrote in previous articles, “Ghana has reached a point in history, where like never before, we cannot afford to have just anybody toil with our fate.” Alan understands this. He doesn’t just speak of hope. He offers a strategy to build it beyond the usual adversarial partisan approach we behold.

And unlike others, his record speaks louder than his rhetoric.From his leadership in establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to his pioneering role in 1D1F industrialization strategy, Alan has proven beyond doubt that he can deliver results. He is no populist. He is not obsessed with optics. He is a builder, a quiet force of dignity in a noisy political space.

Ghanaians must now rise above partisanship and reclaim the Alan vision not because of what the NPP has become, but in spite of it. Alan Kyerematen still stands as Ghana’s best hope not because he is perfect, but because he is prepared. Ghana does not need another career politician. It needs a nation-builder. And we had him all along.

But let it be clear; contrary to some miscommunication in the airwaves, the Movement for Change is not a haven for bitter people looking to fight the NPP. It is a coalition of young and old, professionals and artisans, dreamers and doers all united by a single goal: the transformation of Ghana.It is a movement anchored on principles that Ghanaians have yearned for but never truly experienced in our governance as follows:

A Government of National Unity that rises above party colours and tribal lines to serve the nation first;

A merit-based system of leadership and reward, replacing the corrosive politics of cronyism and family-and-friends rule;

A bold departure from what Alan himself described as the “No Action Talk Only” (NATO) style of leadership, toward a performance-driven culture that brings real, tangible relief to the people;

A clean break from corruption and dishonest conduct not in words, but in consistent, disciplined practice;

And finally, an unshakable commitment to the Great Transformational Plan, advocated not with guile or malice, but with hope, conviction, and patriotic resolve.This is not a rebellion. It is a rebirth.

Alan did not walk away from the NPP to fight a party. He walked away to fight for Ghana's transformation. And now more than ever, we must walk with him.The Movement for Change was never just a vehicle for Alan’s ambition. It was and remains a collective response to betrayal, a platform for rethinking governance, and a rallying point for citizens who believe Ghana can still work.

It is time the NPP stopped resenting Alan and started reflecting on itself. Their anger is not righteous! It is guilt disguised in expressions of disappointment in Alan quitting! If the party is serious about regaining public confidence, it must dismantle the current executive machinery, purge itself of arrogance, and issue an unqualified apology to Alan and the many who were mocked, pushed aside, or ignored for speaking truth.

This is the price of healing. Alan Kyerematen still stands as Ghana’s best hope not because he is perfect, but because he is prepared. Ghana does not need another career politician. It needs a nation-builder. And we had him all along in Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen!

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