The National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has quizzed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over their decision to elect its flagbearer before organising internal elections.
According to Asiedu Nketiah, the NPP needs to be examined over their early election of a flagbearer for the 2028 elections.
Speaking in an interview on Okay FM on June 20, 2025, Asiedu Nketia stated, “I have been saying that doing the same thing, the same way and expecting a different result is a formula for madness. Sometimes you have to think outside the box; it might be that their decision is an outside-the-box thinking. They have started from the bottom to the top it did not work, and it has also worked in the past.
“To get to the top of a tree, you climb from the bottom. If you are on top of a tree and you see someone fixing the roof of a structure first before building the structure itself, won’t you ask for him (sic) to be examined?
“Have you seen someone asking for sheets to roof a structure before s/he even builds the structure?” he asked.
Meanwhile, Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant hopeful, has fired shots at the NPP’s National Executive Committee’s decision to conduct the presidential primaries before the national executive elections, describing it as nonsense and motivated by greed.
According to Boakye Agyarko, if the party genuinely understood the dynamics of campaigning and sought to make a real impact on the electorate, it would have prioritized the selection of capable party executives across the country.
He noted that nobody builds a house starting from the roof before constructing the foundation.
Boakye Agyarko emphasised that strengthening the base by electing competent lower-level executives would significantly support the work of presidential aspirants, as these executives play a crucial role in grassroots mobilisation.
Speaking on Sompa FM, Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko stated, “What has caused them to change the bottom-top approach to the top-bottom approach? Who builds a house starting from the roof before constructing the foundation? It’s either that some people don’t understand politics or are just being selfish and greedy. Why will you elect a flagbearer before national and regional executives? It is total nonsense!” Agyarko stated.
“If you understand campaigns very well, you will not elect a flagbearer at this time. There are 88,917 human settlements in Ghana and so, if you elect a flagbearer and expect them to campaign in all these communities, it will take them 10 years to achieve that, but if you have 210,000 executives from polling stations, they can successfully campaign in these communities within a week if two executives are assigned to each community,” he continued.
“First and foremost, we sell the party to the people before the flagbearer even comes in. There is no way one person can win an election for any political party, that is why we begin from the polling stations,” he added.
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