Nana Obiri Boahen a former Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has quizzed if the NPP has learnt lessons from their miserable 2024 election defeat.
The former Deputy General Secretary emphasised that if the NPP had learnt their lesson they would have started vigorously campaigning for the registration of members and issuance of party cards.
According to him, no serious party would have its members clamouring and campaigning for votes when they have not fulfilled their basic responsibilities.
He further questioned why some party members are seeking positions despite the lack of a credible register and engaging prospective supporters.
Speaking in an interview, Nana Obiri Boahen stated, “Are you sure they have learnt lessons? Because if they had learnt lessons, they would have started vigorously campaigning for the registration of members and issuance of party cards”.
“That is the majority of it but when people are not vigorously campaigning, when people are not joining me to mount a massive campaign, and people think about ‘oh, incoming national chairman, incoming general secretary, incoming national organiser,’ then it clearly shows that those individuals are not serious”.
He added, “Are you serious? So, as incoming, who is going to vote for you? What register are you going to use? What album are you going to use?”
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) revealed that the party will hold its presidential primaries on January 31, 2026.
Meanwhile, Justin Frimpong Kodua, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims the party’s presidential primaries are skewed to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Some NPP supporters and bigwigs have raised concerns surrounding the NPP’s presidential primaries.
According to Justin Kodua, he will be very surprised for anyone to think that the election which is yet to be conducted favours a particular candidate.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV Justin Kodua detailed, “I will be very surprised for anyone to think that an election that is yet to be conducted will favour a particular candidate.”
“If you have monitored our electoral history even from 1992, 1996 to 2000, at every election — from national through to polling stations — about 70%, sometimes even 80%, of current executives retain their positions,” he explained.
He added, “The fact that you may even start from polling station to national or national to polling station does not make it skewed towards a particular person. There are current executives who will still continue to be executives”.
