A new political party has been formed ahead of the 2024 election, and it is urging Ghanaians to join it in order to create a new and improved nation.
People’s Redemption Movement (PRM), as the group is known, aims to revive and restore Ghanaians’ optimism “at this moment of enormous fear, despair, and worry that has grabbed the nation’s psyche,” according to the party leadership.
Edward Adade, the PRM’s temporary general secretary, made the suggestion during a news conference yesterday in Accra to lay out the goals of the new political party.
Mr. Adade added that the party’s lion emblem represented the strength to protect the nation from abuse and destruction of public resources by anyone, in high or low positions.
According to him, the symbol also stood for monarchy, dignity, and respect for Ghanaians and national ideals.
The party’s colors are black, red, and white, and its slogan is “Open Government for Genuine Development.”
Mr Adade asserted that a fresh movement was required to give Ghanaians new hope in light of recent changes to the nation’s political environment and the resurgence of military coups in West Africa.
He said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party alternated as the dominant political force following the restoration of democratic constitutional rule in 1992. (NPP).
But, Mr. Adade claimed that after 30 years of the country’s democratic experiment, Ghanaians had grown weary of the unparalleled levels of corruption, unemployment, insecurity, wanton waste of public funds, and poverty that threatened the democracy’s sustainability.
A new political “campaign for restoration of hope for a better society of peace, openness, fairness, and selflessness to promote real progress in Ghana,” he said, had been demanded by Ghanaians as a result.
“In conformity with established standards, our abbreviation is PRM but we prefer to be known to the public by the acronym alternative, PEREMO,” Mr. Adade said.
He added that in conformity with the movement’s motto, nothing would be hidden from the people of Ghana, saying “We believe that we shall gain nothing if we amass wealth in corruption, stealing and dissipation of the nation’s wealth, but if we work in honesty and openness to protect the nation’s resources it would benefit the people of Ghana”.
Mr Adade said the movement had obtained its provisional certificate from the Electoral Commission (EC) to operate in the country and was yet to proceed to elect its executives, adding: “We already have our interim executive, so after we have officially announced our existence, we will unveil our executives”.
He said the movement was serious about its decision to contest the 2024 presidential elections as it had made available to the EC all the relevant documentation to guarantee its certification.
