In the general election of 2024, opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Youth Organizer George Opare Addo declared that the party does not discount the potential of Independent Presidential candidate Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen.
If Mr. Kyerematen was on the ballot, he threatened to be treated like one of their political rivals.
The National Youth Organizer of the NDC emphasized that the party will plan to evaluate the Movement for Change’s leader’s advantages and disadvantages.
“No one is taken for granted by the NDC. Knowing the NDC’s past and what transpired in 2000 following Gossie Tandoh’s breakaway will help you understand how it affected us. We will therefore treat Alan as any other political party and treat every election seriously if Alan is going to be on the ballot. NDC will handle him like any other political party if he completes the procedures of the Electoral Commission and appears on the ballot on December 7.
“Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has his strengths and weaknesses, so we will consider his contributions when determining the overall design of our campaign. What he intends to remove from the NPP and NDC. And we’ll come up with a plan to handle him so that we don’t undervalue Alan Kyerematen in the slightest. On February 8, 2024, he stated on The Citiuation Room on Citi TV, “We will treat all of them as our political opponents, the kind of messages they will be preaching, and we will be ready for them.”
Opare Addo denied the claim made by Dennis Miracles Aboagye, a member of Dr. Bawumia’s campaign team, that it would take 20 to 30 years for any other political party to end the duopoly.
You make the incorrect assumption if you observe how political parties function. Ghanaian voters are growing more informed every day. Conversations like the ones that are happening now, five, or ten years ago, could sound a lot like Dennis Miracles Aboagye. However, I refuse to accept that it will require twenty or thirty years. With the things we politicians say about ourselves, you will eventually witness the emergence of a third force.
In Ghanaian politics, Mr. Kyerematen is positioning himself as the third force capable of upending the duopoly.
