{"id":55303,"date":"2023-09-27T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=55303"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:54:22","slug":"npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan","title":{"rendered":"NPP collapsed long time ago \u2013 Alan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Former Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has taken a further dig at the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying it collapsed long ago.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Asked why he did not vent his displeasure at this until now that he has resigned from the party, he said it was because he did not want to be seen as the cause of any internal implosion of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kyerematen was speaking on Accra-based UTV on Tuesday, September 26, when he made this observation.<\/p>\n<p>It comes barely 24 hours after he officially resigned from the ruling party and declared his intention to contest the 2024 elections as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, September 25, exactly 20 days after withdrawing from NPP\u2019s presidential race, Mr Kyerematen said the NPP has taken a different form from the one he joined in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined the New Patriotic Party at the very beginning of its establishment as a founding member, believing in its core values and the long-standing traditions of its antecedents, predicated on fairness, equity, probity, accountability, and transparency,\u201d he said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have devoted the best part of my professional career to serving the party, and I still believe in the vision of the founding fathers of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018However, the NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party has been hijacked by a selected group of party leaders and elders, government appointees, \u2018behind the curtain power brokers\u2019 and some unscrupulous Party apparatchiks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stressing on UTV, he said this destruction happened long ago and his resentment had accumulated over the period.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Twi, he said it was about time he used a different vehicle to get to his destination because the NPP is not allowing him to drive them to the promised land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Former Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has taken a further dig at the New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying it collapsed long ago. Asked why he did not vent his displeasure at this until now that he has resigned from the party, he said it was because he did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-55303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP collapsed long time ago \u2013 Alan - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has taken a further dig at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPP collapsed long time ago \u2013 Alan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has taken a further dig at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-27T18:15:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/09\/sm_1695824494.913956.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NPP collapsed long time ago \u2013 Alan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-27T18:15:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/09\/sm_1695824494.913956.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/npp-collapsed-long-time-ago-alan\",\"name\":\"NPP collapsed long time ago \u2013 Alan - 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