Henry Nana Boakye, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) national organizer, has refuted Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen‘s claims that the NPP’s leadership treated him unfairly and was biased against him.
On Monday, September 25, at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel, Mr. Kyerematen announced his resignation. He claimed that the NPP’s special delegates conference was biased in favor of a particular candidate, whom he omitted to name.
He claimed that the party’s National Council, “rejected a petition signed by nine out of the ten aspirants, requesting for the Super Delegates Conference to be held in one location, as well as allowing each Delegate to the Conference to nominate five persons, instead of one, in line with the provisions in the Party’s Constitution.”
But in response to the accusations, the NPP’s National Organizer told Umaru Sanda Amadu in an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM that the petition in question had been carefully considered and approved.
“There were two things that he mentioned,” he said. “He mentioned that nine out of the ten aspirants put together a petition and presented it to the National Council. Article 30 of our Constitution is clear, it is the National Council that has the sole mandate to determine the venue for the conduct of the presidential primaries. In executing this mandate, you are putting before the National Council a petition to vary the 2024 practice to hold the Special Delegates Conference in all the then ten regions and then to have one centre at the party’s headquarters. So, if your petition intends to move from that position, then there must be a compelling reason and the National Council invited you, and we had to vote on this particular position and an overwhelming majority of 74 percent of National Council members voted against it.”
“If you are a democratic person, you need to understand the processes involved in issuing what we want in a democracy because we have listened to you, you had a fair hearing and the matter was put to a vote and an overwhelming majority voted against it.”
