Election 2024: Over 100 Alan supporters in Central region defect to NPP
Some supporters of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen’s Movement for Change in the Central have defected to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The over one hundred supporters at a press conference in Cape Coast stated their intentions for leaving the Movement for Change indicating that the NPP’s numerous developmental projects across the country is what has informed their decision.
The group which previously campaigned for Alan Kyerematen during the presidential primaries believes the NPP’s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, stands a better chance of winning the 2024 elections, hence the decision to work for the party towards victory.
Leader of the group, Francis Edzie, who is now the polling station secretary for the NPP in the Twi-Ndzi-Twi Jejem Electoral Area in Cape Coast South, said his colleagues have heeded calls from the national campaign team of Bawumia and are certain that their decision is in the interest of the NPP.
“We, the campaign team members of Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, during the presidential primaries, have gathered here today. Some of us followed him to the Movement of Change when he withdrew from the presidential primaries. Upon advice from national campaign leadership, we, the youth in the Central Region, who campaigned for Alan and his Movement for Change, have decided to return to our mother party, the NPP.
“As former president John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor once said, it is better to be a messenger in a ruling party than to be a general secretary in a position party. NPP has undertaken numerous departmental projects within its almost eight-year term in office. We want the NPP to continue its progress rather than an opposition party that lacks direction.”
