Presidential primary is a family contest — Alan Kyerematen

A candidate in the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) presidential primary, Mr Alan John Kyerematen, has expressed his strong belief that the NPP will remain united after the flag bearer contest to present a potent front for 2016.

He emphasised that “the competition only reinforces the party’s like for heterogeneity and the contest of ideas. However, the debates must be clean and healthy, based on facts and not fallacious propaganda. The rules of the contest must be respected."

In a statement, he said that the party leadership must educate members on the terms of engagement, while the contestants encouraged their followers to eschew the use of bad language and illegal conducts. 

He asked agents for his campaign and supporters of his candidature to be circumspect in their utterances.

Acknowledging that   there is much work   to be done for the growth of the party and the country, Mr Kyerematen advised that campaign messages should focus on what could be done to rejuvenate the party to win power to bring solutions to national problems.

Being a founder member of the party since its establishment in 1992 and having served on some of its highest decision-making bodies, his singular commitment has been to prosecute an agenda to galvanise the business community to support the growth and development of the party.

He said he was also very much aware of the weakened grass-roots structures of the party and   an agenda at the national, regional, constituency and polling station levels to rebuild the structures would be crucial to winning power in 2016.