Alan Kyerematen’s failure to maintain relationships cost him the NPP flagship

Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), has hired Alan Kyerematen.

He claims that Alan Kyerematen’s dream of leading the New Patriotic Party (NPP) did not materialize because of the kind of person he is.

According to him, people like Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and others supported young party members so that they could educate themselves, but Alan Kyerematen never did that.

He indicated that Alan Kyerematen cannot point to young men whom he has nurtured in politics. As a result, he has not received the votes that would make him the leader of the ruling political party.

Read his message below

Dear Chief Alan, you have to blame yourself for not becoming the next NPP flag bearer after Prez Akufo-Addo because of the way you conducted your internal politics, not because of a systemic mafia or a bad record. If systemic support would have automatically led to winning, you would have won the 2007 NPP primaries.

1. As a loyal party member, you have failed to nurture and support your base: almost all the youth who were part of your strong team in 2007 deserted your camp in the subsequent primaries because you could not maintain good political relations with them. From people like the late John Kumah to people like the Hon Ayew Afriyies and Hon. Opare Ansahs etc. While Prez Akufo-Addo and Dr Bawumia built strong teams that sponsored many young party activists for rights and maintained good relations with constituency leaders among other tactics.

2. Every time you lose a primary, you go to sleep and show up at the next primary: Chief, that is not how we do politics in Ghana. When your mentor, the Honourable President Kufuor, came third in the 1992 primary, he immediately embarked on a nationwide thank-you tour to interact with the party members and maintained a good relationship with them. By the next primary in 1996, he had endeared himself to the party delegates and was able to defeat Adu Boahen and Dsane Selby, who had come first and second in 1992.

You are a fine gentleman and a smart technocrat but definitely not a good politician. I bet even some young NPP boys who harbour presidential ambitions can beat you in the primaries because of their relationship with the grassroots of the party.

It was no surprise when Hon Ken Agyapong defeated you in the Super Delegates elections within a few months because he resonates with the grassroots through his philanthropic work and party communication. I have never seen you even donate shirts to any of your constituencies. You only started mass political communication when you launched your Movement for Change. With this style of politics, how do you expect to become an NPP flag bearer, Chief?