A member of the New Patriotic Party’s Council of Elders in the Upper East Region, Robert Ajene has condemned the decision by Alan Kyeremanten to withdraw from the party’s ongoing presidential race.
Mr Ajene questioned Mr Kyeremanten’s genuineness and loyalty to the party having repeated same action in 2007 after a failed attempt to lead the party.
Mr Kyeremanten was reported to have resigned from the party in 2007 as a result of an alleged harassment of some of his supporters who wanted to contest NPP’s Parliamentary Primaries at the time.
Sources from his camp had indicated that, Mr Kyeremanten’s supporters were not happy with treatment meted out to them by the campaign team of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, then Flagbearer of the party.
Similarly, Mr Kyeremanten this week withdrew from the party’s presidential primaries after taking 3rd position, citing intimidation and unfairness that characterized the super delegates congress.
However, speaking on the State Of Our Nation on Dreamz FM yesterday, Mr Ajene said, the Party has been too tolerant towards Alan’s retrogressive and repetitive action.
“In 2007, this same person, there was a similar case like this and he said he was walking away. As we sit, this is the first thing that this man did.
As we sit, nobody has seen a letter that he has written to withdraw his first one (resignation letter). And he came back and who received him back? And he is repeating that thing again,” he stated.
“This is the same person now, something has happened, some committee has been set up to investigate the matter, they haven’t finished then you are withdrawing, like you did at first. In the first place, are you officially genuinely a member of the party?”
He continued, “The NPP has been over tolerant of him which I will say bravo to the NPP party. They have very tolerant to accept you back and you are repeating this? The NPP is a very good party, considerate party”.
Mr Ajene stated that, Alan’s action will not affect the party’s ‘break the 8’ agenda, even if he decides to further break away.
