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New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Nana Akomea has expressed sadness over the announcement by Alan Kyerematen to resign from the party and contest as an independent candidate in the 2024 election.

Alan Kyerematen, on Monday, September 25, shook the airwaves declaring that he is no longer a member of the New Patriotic Party.

" . . under the circumstances, and given the context provided I wish to use this platform to announce that I am honourably resigning with immediate effect from the NPP to contest for the high office of the President of the Republic of Ghana as an independent presidential candidate," Alan said during a press conference at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.

He described the New Patriotic Party to have been invaded by unscrupulous persons.

"I joined the New Patriotic Party at the very beginning of its establishment as a Founding Member, believing in its core values and the long-standing traditions of its antecedents, predicated on fairness, equity, probity, accountability, and transparency.

" . . the NPP as it exists now has very little resemblance to the Party that I joined in 1992 and helped to nurture. The Party has been hijacked by a selected group of Party leaders and elders, government appointees, 'behind the curtain power brokers” and some unscrupulous Party apparatchiks."

Tackling this matter during Peace FM’s morning show “Kokrokoo” with Kwami Sefa Kayi, Nana Akomea opined that Alan forming his own movement to run as an independent candidate will amount to nothing.

"It will go nowhere", he asserted and advised the former Trade Minister saying "there will be no benefit for him" on this political journey he is taking.

Nana Akomea backed his assertions with historical accounts of persons in the country who decided to contest general elections as independent candidates and those who defected from their parties to form their own political movements.

He recounted how none of them has been elected President of Ghana neither did any of them come close to achieving more than 1 percent of votes in the elections.

The STC Chief Executive believes it is a wrong move for Alan to compete with the New Patriotic Party in next year’s elections.

"I am sad that he has defected from the party...History has proven that there is nothing in being an independent candidate. Those who also left to form their own party didn't achieve any better result. This is why it saddens me that my big brother Alan, the way he is experienced in Ghana's politics, didn't consider all these historical accounts and is plying this same route; I am really sad," he stated.

He added; "We must tell him the truth that this path he is taking won't help him. It's unnecessary!"