Chief Executive Officer for the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) Kofi Ofosu Nkansah has taken on Alan Kyerematen.

He argues that Alan Kyerematen’s dream of leading the New Patriotic Party (NPP) did not come to fruition because of the kind of his personality.

To him, while the likes of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia among others were supporting young party boys to educate themselves, Alan Kyerematen never did that.

He indicated that Alan Kyerematen can’t point to young men he raised in politics hence his failure to make the votes that will make him the leader of the governing political party.

Read his post below:

Dear Chief Alan, you have yourself to blame for not becoming the next NPP flag-bearer after Prez Akufo-Addo because of how you did your internal politics, not because of any systemic mafia or bad register. If system support resulted in an automatic win, you would have won the NPP 2007 primaries.

1. As a party stalwart, you failed to nurture and support your base: Almost all the young people who were part of your strong 2007 team left your camp in subsequent primaries because you couldn’t maintain a good political relationship with them.

From the likes of the late John Kumah to the likes of the Hon Ayew Afriyies and Hon. Opare Ansahs etc. Whereas Prez Akufo-Addo and Dr Bawumia built strong teams sponsoring many young party activists to law School and maintaining a good relationship with Constituency executives among other tactics.

Anytime you lose primaries, you go to sleep and appear at the next primaries: Chief, this is not how we do politics in Ghana. When your mentor, the venerable President Kufuor placed 3rd in the 1992 primaries, he immediately embarked on a nationwide thank you tour to interact with the rank and file of the party and maintained a good relationship with them. By the next primaries in 1996, he had endeared himself to the party delegates and he was able to beat Adu Boahen and Dsane Selby who placed first and second in 1992.

You are a fine gentleman and smart technocrat but definitely not a good politician. I bet even some of the young NPP guys nurturing presidential ambitions can beat you in primaries because of how they relate with the grassroots of the party.

It was no surprise when Hon Ken Agyapong used a few months to beat you at the Super Delegates elections because he resonates with the grassroots through his philanthropic work and Party communications. I never saw you donate even jerseys to any of your Home Constituencies. You only started doing mass Political Communication when you launched your Movement for Change. How do you expect to become an NPP flagbearer with this style of Politics, Chief?