Market queens from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have collected the nomination papers for Alan Kojo Kyeremanten to run as the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer candidate.
On November 4, the team, renowned for its grassroots mobilization initiatives, paid the Ghc50,000 entry fee necessary for Mr. Kyerematen to take part in the upcoming presidential primary elections.
The nomination fee for Mr. Kyerematen was paid, according to the head of the Kumasi Tomato Sellers Union, Comfort Serwaa, to demonstrate their confidence in his qualifications to serve as president of this country.
“We decided that we won’t allow Mr Kyerematen to pick his forms, we will put resources together and pay the fee for him. So we are here to pick the forms for Alan so he can become the President of Ghana.”
In order to concentrate on his campaign for the presidency, Mr. Kyerematen resigned from his position as Trades Minister in January 2023.
The Market Queens have previously given cement and quarry stones to the Kumasi Race Course Market Women, so this is not the first time they have offered their assistance.
They spoke with the directors of the Kumasi Central Market during their consultations as well, urging the market women to support Mr. Kyerematen and highlighting his accomplishments while serving in the Trades and Industry Ministry as arguments in favor of doing so.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was recently criticized for betraying the former Trade Minister by Yaw Buaben Asamoa, a spokesperson for the Alan Kyeremanten Campaign.
He claimed that while Mr. Kyerematen made sacrifices for Nana Akufo-Addo to serve as the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer in 2008, the President declined to support him in the 2024 elections.
On May 19, 2023, Buaben Asamoa revealed in an interview with Wontumi TV that in the 2007 and 2008 NPP primaries, which featured seventeen competitive candidates, including twelve cabinet members, Alan Kyerematen finished second and then-Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama finished third.
