A New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, has staked his claim that he is the best candidate to defeat Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 Elections to form the next government.
The former Trade Minister’s conviction comes after he met all delegates from the 47 constituencies in the Ashanti Region, ahead of the presidential primary of the party.
Mr. Kyerematen, who toured the region meeting delegates over a week in durbars, said he was ready to contest John Dramani Mahama, and called on the delegates to make him NPP’s flagbearer to force the bitter pill of defeat down the throat of Mahama.
He gave the assurance that once he was given the mandate to lead the party to the 2024 Elections, he would work towards ensuring that the party garnered two million votes from the Ashanti Region alone, besides those from other regions.
He said former President John Dramani Mahama was no match to him, because he, Mahama, had outlived his capabilities and had nothing new to offer Ghanaians.
According to the former Minister for Trade and Industry, Mahama’s track record, from his days as Vice President till he became the President, proved that he was a bad manager of the economy.
He, therefore, asked for the delegates’ vote at the NPP primaries so he could put his experience and vision to the benefit of Ghanaians.
He believes a contest between Mahama and himself would make it easier for the NPP to garner, at least, 54% of the votes cast to ‘break the eight’.
Alan Cash, as he is popularly called, said it was incumbent on the delegates to make the right choice of a leader to revive the economy to boom just as it prevailed when former President Kufuor left power in 2009.
He noted that the power to resuscitate the economy resided in the decision of the delegates to choose a competent person to roll out effective and efficient interventions to address the situation.
According to him, the answer to the economic mess lay in his Great Transformational Plan designed as the beat intervention to see Ghana rise again.
“I can assure delegates, and Ghanaians at large, that l will bring hope to Ghana, because l will deliver,” Mr. Kyerematen assured.
