JOHN ALAN KWADWO KYEREMATEN, one of the forerunners of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential race has unveiled a fundraising medium -‘AlanCash’ Donation Platform-to solicit financial support from well-wishers and sympathizers toward securing his flagbearer ambition.
“First of all, I thank all of you for honouring my invitation to join me unveil this project, God bless you. If you recall, in the beginning of this year, in January, I declared my intention to contest the flagbearer position of the party. I didn’t say that for saying sake. God will bless whoever supports this project with as little as 1 Cedi. Because that will be an investment for a better future for Ghana. Alan’s government is a peoples’ government, which I called Partnership for Power,” the former Trade and Industry Minister stated.
Addressing a packed-to capacity gathering, yesterday, during the launch of the platform, Alan Kyeremanten indicated that the launch of the project was in fulfilment of a promise he made since the beginning of the year in a live broadcast of his intention to contest the NPP flagbearer race when the party opens nominations.
According to him, during his time as minister, he received enormous support from the people of Ghana and believes that Ghanaians would continue in that spirit.
He also said he wanted to have a partnership of power because “I want to run a government by the people for the people and of the people.”
“Today, I am fulfilling that promise. This is also to tell you that I will fulfil my promises when I become the president,” he said.
Kyerematen said the idea and design of the initiative were inspired by the need to promote inclusiveness where people were committed to the process of choosing who governed them.
The Cashman’s “Ketewa Biara Nsua AlanCash donation” platforms is expected to raise a monthly average of GHS 10 from over 500,000 donors within a six-to-18-month period.
Funds are to provide cash flow support to the aspirant likely to participate in three elections – the Super Delegate election, Primaries and the 2024 general election.
The deployment of technology and innovation to raising funds was a testament to greater things to come if given the nod to lead the NPP and subsequently become the President of Ghana.
He said was not ready to use government resources to fund his political campaign in principle, hence the decision to resign from office in January.
“If you are really interested in becoming president, then step down from government and go look for your own funds for your campaign,” he said.
The crowdfunding platforms, which take the form of a donation website, a mobile application, a Mobile Money payment or an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code, are designed to receive a one-time payment, a periodic contribution or a direct contribution to campaign activities within a constituency.
All one need to do to donate is to dial the Short Code *713*2473# or via the Alan Cash App.
There is an option for affiliate marketing where people who get others to donate through link sharing are captured as contributors.
Mr Sylvester Tetteh, Member of Parliament for Bortiannor Ngleshie Amanfo Constituency, who is also the Regional Campaign Coordinator of the Alan campaign, said financial support was a call to duty for Ghanaians to support the vision of a man who was credible and well respected.
Mr Sammy Crabbe, a member of the campaign team, said contributors to the fund stood to among other things, gain the satisfaction of being part of the transformational phase, access to campaign paraphernalia, dinner opportunity with the candidate and party members, considerations for contributors based on the captured database.
At the launch were Mr Peter Amewu, Minister for Railways Development and Mr Carlos Ahenkorah, former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry
