Political analyst and researcher Dr. Elvis Botah has said the breakaway movement of Alan Kyeremanten and his cohort is a little more than a band of disgruntled party members and not a force likely to change Ghana’s political balance.
Botah dismissed the claim that the party was being “hijacked” by factional interests as a convenient explanation for an individual’s failure to win at the primaries.
“If Nana Akufo-Addo is your problem, you have had the same Nana Addo exiting after his constitutional term, and you still wanted to be flagbearer of the NPP,” he said on Good Morning Ghana monitored by MyNewsGh, arguing that the narrative conveniently surfaces only after defeat.
He added that similar threats to leave have trailed Alan’s political career for years and therefore shouldn’t be read as a new movement with mass appeal.
Botah cited past performance to undercut expectations for the splinter group’s prospects. “We saw it in his Movement of Change with a 0.24% achievement,” he said, concluding bluntly: “It’s not going to be anything significantly different.”
For him, splinter groups formed out of personal disappointment rarely translate into sustainable electoral machines.
He was scathing about entitlement politics. Those who feel shortchanged by internal party contests, he said, often mistake personal setback for systemic injustice.
“These are disgruntled elements who feel entitled when democratic circumstances didn’t favour them,” he observed, urging would‑be defectors to either stay and reform or quietly accept the loss.
