By Napoleon Ato Kittoe
Independent Presidential Candidate Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen opened up in an exclusive interview he granted the gbconline in Accra Tuesday, 23 April 2024.
He says, the league of political parties and interest groups forming the Alliance for Revolutionary Change, ARC, is not a marriage of convenience. Rather he said, it is a marriage of conviction and conscience.
He described a marriage of convenience as a union only for short-term goals such as capturing political power. A marriage of conscience and conviction has a long-range view with exponents and their henchmen working systematically to change a culture or practices.
Ghanaians should prepare for a long haul with Alan Kyerematen because his dissociation with the ruling New Patriotic Party is aimed at promoting a cause. The cause of breaking the political duopoly in Ghana, and to scupper the ills associated with the status quo.
The chosen Flagbearer of the ARC, Mr. Alan Kyerematen, said he wants to end the spectre of winner-takes-all in Ghana politics that had seen only the NDC and the NPP entrusted with power.
He said, 32 years of power between the two dominant parties have teetered the country to the brink with the economy always sent in the ambulance to the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for a rescue. He said, inflation reflected in high prices of goods and services and the cost of production suggests Ghana needs a safer pair of hands to steer her from the “mess.”
He prayed for the electorate to see the light and reject negative governance that has bedevilled them, and vote for a true Redeemer. He said, he waited for his turn in NPP to take the driving seat but that was not to be, hence his going independent to make his role at the highest level available to the people of Ghana in the times that are most imperative.
Mr Alan Kyerematen said, he frowns on social inequality and marginalization, thus a vote for him in the December 7, 2024 elections would see a speedier response to the malaise established political parties have turned blind eyes to.
He urged would-be voters to disregard propaganda against him and vote for him to reorder the system for their own good. He commended the leader of the National Interest Movement, Dr Abu Sakara Forster and others for joining hands with him in seeking a political middle-ground necessary for an all-round development.
He promises to appoint persons willing to serve Ghana under his watch irrespective of their political persuasions, citing the examples of Benin where the last two governments were led by independent Presidential Candidates.
Beyond Africa, he said the United States took the first step in democracy by voting for an independent candidate George Washington in the 1700s to lead the country.