NPP Flag bearer hopeful, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has opined that the New Patriotic Party may only meet the demands of Ghanaian voters if it presents a “modest” flag bearer for the 2016 elections.
The twice unlucky flag bearer aspirant noted that the biggest opposition party ought to understand the “Ghanaian voter psychology” to elect a flag bearer that will match what they are looking for.
Almost saying the party risk losing the 2016 elections if it elect a hardliner cast in the mould of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the former Trade and Industry Minister in the Kufuor administration noted “we need to understand the Ghanaian voter psychology, particularly, in presidential elections,” wondering: What are Ghanaians looking for in a President?”
Speaking on Metro Tv’s Good Evening Ghana hosted by Paul Adom Otchere, Mr Alan Kyerematen explained “When I talk about understanding the voter psychology - we should not look at this in a negative sense - maybe Ghanaians are looking for somebody who has a moderate disposition, you know, has maybe a certain orientation which Ghanaians are interested in. It could be anything.”
In what was believed to be a direct snide at the party’s twice failed presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, who has since the interview‘sent’ attack dogs after Alan Kyerematen, the former Trade and Industry Minister circuitously blamed the NPP’s 2008 and 2012 defeats on the haughtiness of its candidate.
Mr Alan Keyeramaten announced his intension to contest the party’s flag bearer position few days to its April 12 conference in Tamale to elect national executives.
He has since been granting interviews to the media about his readiness to slug it out once again with Nana Akufo-Addo and other budding candidates when the party opens nomination later this year for the flag bearer contest.
Some political commentators have stated that the outcome of the NPP’s Tamale conference favors Mr. Alan Keyermaten as many of the newly elected executives who will supervise the party’s primaries to elect flag bearer are believed to be his allies.
Nana Akufo-Addo on the other has been deprived of the support and monopoly he enjoyed from the party’s former national executives as the entire ‘old’ executives aside the national women organizer, lost their respective positions.
This many said has boosted Alan Keyerematen’s confidence and chances and he has since been making waves in the media, despite constant harsh responses from Nana Akufo-Addo’s men.
In one of the unguarded responses to him, Spokesperson of the twice defeated Presidential candidate, Mustapha Hamid dared Alan Kyarematen to run as independent candidates if he thinks he is popular.
But Mr Kyarematen has maintained his point that the next flag bearer of the NPP must be a humble and affable person who is liked by not just members of the NPP but Ghanaians in general.
The former trade minister said the party must therefore do a scientific analysis to gauge the mood about what Ghanaians want in a President because that will help the NPP to select someone who would be accepted by the voter population.
