Alan Kyerematen
It has become the norm for some members of the political class to reduce the issues for this year’s elections to trivia.
They have time and again tried to take the minds of the people off the bread and butter issues to the non-essentials.
It is trite knowledge now that the opposition elements led by John Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) and of late Alan Kyerematen’s Butterfly Movement have decided to play on the emotions of the people for electoral advantage.
Till date, the NDC and other opposition political parties that are in contest with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia only highlight the challenges facing us but not the solutions facing us.
Now the NDC has an advertorial all over the media landscape attacking the Akufo-Addo government for causing the high cost of living in the country. These days, they cite the depreciating value of the cedi and high cost of cement without providing the solutions to the high cost of living.
We have always warned the electorate against the empty and lame promises from the opposition political parties.
Unless our people have refused to acknowledge the truth and the reality of our times, the Akufo-Addo and Mahamudu Bawumia-led government, cannot be blamed for want of trying.
Under the circumstances of our geo-politics and the political economy, the NPP government cannot be said to have failed, unlike John Mahama who superintended over ‘dumsor’ for over four years, leading to the collapse of people’s businesses. Even under the present circumstances of high dollar value and high cost of cement, a lot of economic activities are currently ongoing.
Alan Kyerematen’s effusions can only be from sour grapes, whose political career will end on December 7.
If the handlers of Alan will not tell him, we will not behave like the “Lion King” whose followers are unable to tell their leader that he is a spent force.
Now that he has taken his frustration to our respected former President John Agyekum Kufuor, he has had his fingers burnt and unless he apologises to our former president whose dignity he wanted to drag into the mud, God’s judgement and doom await him. Alan has touched God’s anointed and the repercussions are grave unless he beats a retreat to say to his mentor, “I’m sorry, forgive me.”
In his two subsequent attempts to lead the party, he was humiliated in 2011 and 2015 by then candidate Akufo-Addo. Demonstrating the principle of working together as a team to achieve set objectives, Akufo-Addo made Alan a key ally in his 2016 campaign, and when Akufo-Addo won decisively he appointed Alan as Minister of Trade and Industry in 2017 and held onto that position until he resigned in 2023 to contest as the presidential candidate of the NPP.
Reminiscent of his unsportsmanlike behaviour in 2007, Alan again decided to defect from the NPP in 2023 after he failed to impress at the primaries. This time around, he decided to form his Butterfly Movement to run as the independent presidential candidate in the December 7 elections.
Some concerned members of the ruling NPP felt Alan should not be allowed to leave, but others felt he is not indispensable.
Alan is more critical of the NPP than the NDC now, and will lead the attack to create the impression that former President John Agyekum Kufuor no longer matters in our body politics.
Alan is a frustrated character, whose effusions on the political scene can be said to be nauseating. He has nothing to offer except to descend also into the gutter like John Mahama and his NDC and bring curses onto himself by insulting the person who made him Alan Cash.
We believe that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his NPP will focus on its agenda to retain power to take Ghana to the Promised Land in spite of seeming challenges. That is why the NPP and former President Kufuor should not give credibility to the effusions of a frustrated man like Alan whose Waterloo is just a few days to December 7.