Nana Ohene Ntow, Senior Advisor to the Founder and Leader of the Movement for Change, Alan Kyerematen, has expressed satisfaction with John Dramani Mahama’s victory in the December 7 election, where Mahama secured 56.55% of the valid votes cast.
Following the announcement of the results, Ohene Ntow noted that while his preferred candidate, Alan Kyerematen, did not make a substantial impact in the polls, the Movement for Change succeeded in its primary goal of championing meaningful and measurable change.
“The most important thing Alan and the team stood for is change, a change that can be measured. We wanted a certain type of change and some quality of change. But at the end of the day, the status quo was not maintained at least in some sense there is change.
“It was not as dramatic as transformational as the movement for change that Alan Kyeremanteng and some of us will have wanted to see, but I am personally very happy even though my preferred candidate Alan Kyeremanteng did not make such an impact.”
Speaking on TV3 on Saturday, December 14, Ohene Ntow reflected on the broader implications of the election, emphasizing the importance of change and the potential dangers of maintaining the status quo.
“It was clear that had Ghanaians voted to maintain the status quo of the NPP, that would be a major disaster. If in the face of the level of corruption that we are seeing, real or apparent if in the face of this level of arrogance of power, if in the face of the level of mismanagement and economic hardships, if in the face of galamsey menace, and the destruction of natural resources and water bodies and so many other facts and yet NPP could win an election, then Ghana was finished.”
