A presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan John Kyerematen, has vowed to modernize the party if granted the nod by delegates when the party holds elections later this year.

In order to free party officials to focus on their obligations to the party, the former minister of trade and industry suggested creating platforms that can raise money to compensate them.

Alan Kyerematen, a minister for a total of more than ten years who has worked for both the John Agyekum Kufuor and the present Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administrations, has declared he will also establish a pension plan for party officials who have dedicated their entire lives to serving it.

Mr Kyerematen stressed the importance of sponsoring party initiatives and inspiring party leaders while speaking on a Kumasi radio program.

"There must be a platform and programmes for party financing. I have the record to have set up the Constituency Business Ventures in the past, that is your way of strengthening the party," he said.

he seasoned politician offered a compensation structure for party executives at the constituency and national levels so they may concentrate on their main responsibilities inside the party.

In order to encourage individuals to work for the party, he also offered a pension plan for fully devoted party executives.

"Full-time party executives must be on full salary to enable them to devote more attention to party work.

"There will be a pension scheme to retired party executives who devote all their time to working for the NPP.

“The focus should be on the party because it is the party that brings the government into power,” he added.

Alan Kyerematen also stressed the need for more attention to be paid to the concerns of footsoldiers, as well as other workers of the party who continue to work tirelessly to get the party into power but are then neglected, with no benefits to show for their efforts.

This trend, he said, must stop in order to build a strong party that is capable of convincingly winning elections in the future.

The longest-serving Minister of Trade and Industry has already confirmed his readiness to contest as flagbearer in the upcoming NPP presidential primaries, anticipated to be fiercely contested, scheduled for later in 2023.