{"id":94641,"date":"2025-09-18T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=94641"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:44:00","slug":"alans-exit-hurt-npp-but-return-should-not-be-taken-lightly-says-hackman-owusu-agyeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=94641","title":{"rendered":"Alan\u2019s exit hurt NPP, but return should not be taken lightly, says Hackman Owusu-Agyeman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chairman of the NPP Council of Elders, Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, has opened up about Alan Kyerematen\u2019s departure from the party and the possibility of his return.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Joy News\u2019 PM Express on September 17, the former MP said those who repeatedly resign and return cause disruption and should face strict conditions. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a few of them, without mentioning names, who resigned, then came back, then resigned, then came back. It\u2019s not a child\u2019s game, so what the general secretary is saying makes a bit of sense. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s saying that if you come, then some undertakings might be taken. You don\u2019t come and disturb us. If you\u2019ve gone, then if you want to stay where you are, stay, but if you come back, then we should have preconditions for you to do that thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I believe that, but I think that in the past, we have been too liberal, lenient with people who have done that and eventually disturbed our forward march to better organisation and things like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The former Foreign Minister recalled how Alan\u2019s earlier resignation drew a sharp reaction from the late B.J. Da Rocha. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that Da Rocha, whom we all revere, when Alan resigned the first time, he said good riddance, and he was the party chairman at that time. So I really don\u2019t know, when it comes, it will be discussed. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I believe that sometimes you begin to wonder whether, and I\u2019m being very frank with you in this interview, you begin to wonder whether it was deliberately meant to scuttle our front and make us lose. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd sometimes I wonder because there was absolutely no need\u2026 if you have a nationwide election and one person gets into a physical fight and then he says, because of that, I\u2019m resigning. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, if you want to form your own political party, have the courage to say, I am forming my political party. Don\u2019t link that to the fact that the party was not able to protect you,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Asked how Alan\u2019s exit affected the party in the 2024 election, Mr Owusu-Agyeman said the impact was real. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, even one vote is important, and he took a few thousand votes, especially from the Ashanti Region\u2026 Not only that, but they had the boys go on television and say all manner of things, insults and what have you, and people always saying \u2018oh, they were with them once upon a time, so what they are saying is true,\u2019 and it wasn\u2019t helpful to us,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyeman made it clear that he would not support such a situation again. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you want to come, you join a party, you have to behave yourself. And I don\u2019t think that in future, we shall, well, I will not cast my vote for such a situation at all. In future, if you create problems for us, you go, I mean, we can go on, life goes on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that politics must not be reduced to a revolving door for disgruntled figures. <\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics is quite interesting, and these are the sort of things that we shouldn\u2019t be encouraging at all. In the UK right now, some people from the Conservatives are going to Reform. But if you go, stay there, stay there with your problem, don\u2019t come and do that again,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n

While cautioning against leaders who abandon the party, Mr Owusu-Agyeman left the door open for younger followers who broke away. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose ones, they were the leaders who created a problem, and the young mass followers should come back. They should come back because they know that they are not going to go anywhere,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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