Hopeson Adorye, Nana Ohene Ntow, Boniface Abubakar Saddique and Yaw Buaben Asamoa are no longer members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) following their
Hopeson Adorye, Nana Ohene Ntow, Boniface Abubakar Saddique and Yaw Buaben Asamoa are no longer members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) following their decision to join Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen’s Movement for Change as part of his independent presidential campaign.
In a press statement dated Monday, November 20. 2023, signed and issued by the NPP General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, Hopeson Adorye, Nana Ohene Ntow, Boniface Abubakar Saddique and Yaw Buaben Asamoa have “AUTOMATICALLY FORFEITED their membership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).”
“They are, therefore, no longer members of the Party,” Kodua said in the press statement.
The four are said to have publicly endorsed Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen who recently resigned from the NPP to form a new movement dubbed Movement for Change.
Kyerematen dropped out of the NPP’s presidential primary and subsequently resigned from the NPP in September and has indicated his readiness to compete the 2024 presidential election as an independent candidate and has been moving around mobilising volunteers.
Hopeson Adorye, Nana Ohene Ntow, Boniface Abubakar Saddique and Yaw Buaben Asamoa, all members of the NPP have been joining Kyerematen on his rounds and per the NPP’s constitution, any member who decides to join any aspirant against the chosen candidate of the party automatically forfeit their membership.
At the final funeral rites of former First Lady, Theresa Aba Kufuor in Kumasi at the weekend, some of them reportedly mobilised supporters for Alan Kyerematen and distributed T-shirts inscribed with the Movement for Change symbol of butterfly to canvass support for Mr Kyerematen.
Nana Ohene Ntow is a former General Secretary of the NPP.
Yaw Buaben Asamoa and Boniface Abubakar Saddique are both former members of Parliament on the ticket of the NPP. Buaben Asamoa served as MP for Adentan on the ticket of the NPP while Ababakar Saddique served as MP for Salaga in Northern Region and Madina in Greater Accra, all on the ticket of the NPP.