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Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has challenged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to present alternatives to solving the over three year old power crisis popularly known as dumsor, if they want Ghanaians to vote for them in next year’s elections.

The crisis has intensified in recent times with the Power Ministry and Ghana Gas trading accusations about who is responsible for the worsening of the crisis.

Pressure is also mounting on Power Minister, Kwabena Donkor who upon assumption of power as head of the ministry claimed he would resign from his post if he fails to end the power crisis by end of December 2015.

With December 2015 fast approaching and the media counting the days to his resignation, Kwabena Donkor has started shifting the goal post insisting he promised to end load shedding and not Dumsor, the local name for the power crisis.

Interestingly, he has failed to distinguish between Load Shedding and Power crisis.

But Kwesi Pratt speaking on Adom FM Thursday,A said Dr Kwabena Donkor's resignation won’t end the crisis which has led to the collapse of the country’s industrial sector.

“…Kwabena Donkor talks too much…who cares about him resigning, all we care about is we want solution to ending the problem…,” he said.

Despite claiming that he expects the Power Minister to present solutions to ending the crisis and stop thinking about his resignation, Kwesi Pratt insisted that he and several Ghanaians would appreciate it the more if the NPP present their alternatives to ending the crisis.

According to him, he is yet to hear the NPP presenting an alternative to ending the crisis ‘if indeed you are the alternative to government you claim’.

But the call, the NPP MP for Kade,  Ofosu Asamoah who was on the show with him said, was premature as according to him, the NPP was yet to come out with its manifesto.

He said their alternatives would be captured in their manifesto and hence it was important the NDC which is still serving its mandate solves the crisis.