I'M NOT NEW IN NPP — ALAN (Page 13)

Story: Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

AN aspiring flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party NPP, Mr Alan Kyerematen, has stated that he is not new in the party as people are being made to believe.
Mr Kyerematen said also that he had stayed and worked in the country for the past 30 years contrary to claims that he was new in the party and had stayed the greater part of his life outside the country thus he was unsuitable to lead the party for the 2008 elections.
Addressing delegates of the party from six constituencies in the Central Region at the Centre for National Culture in Cape Coast on Friday, Mr Kyerematen said he had worked in the country in the last 30 years as UAC Manager.
The delegates were drawn from the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese, Assin North and South, Cape Coast, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem and the Mfantseman West constituencies.
He said he had been a member of the National Executive Committee of the party since 1992 and chairman of the Young Executive Committee of the party.
He said during those periods he worked with the Minister for Finance, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu; the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD, Mr Akwasi Osei Agyei, and the Minister of Defence, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, and supported the party in various ways.
He told the delegates that he satisfied all the conditions to lead the party for the 2008 elections and that he could easily win the election for the party, since he was marketable and could also win the floating voters to his side.
He said he would create jobs to improve the living conditions of the people and resource the constituency office to enable them to perform effectively and efficiently.
He tasked the constituency executives to embark on a house-to-house campaign to ensure victory for the party and that he would provide the necessary assistance to any constituency executive that embarked on such campaigns. He therefore urged the delegates to give him their mandate at the NPP’s congress in December to lead it to victory in 2008.