Dr. Arthur Kennedy a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant has accused the NPP of acting in the interests of a small cabal.
According to Arthur Kennedy, the NPP’s January 31, 2026, presidential primary appears to be a hurried proposal aimed at benefiting a certain small group of people.
Speaking on Channel One TV, on June 21, 2025, Arthur Kennedy stated, “As usual, we seem to be acting in the interest of a small cabal, and it appears to me that this hurriedly concocted proposal is aimed at benefiting a certain small group of people”.
“I think that for a democratic party, and with the record we have, we seem to keep shooting ourselves in the foot. It seems as if the most democratic party in Ghana historically is becoming more and more anti-democratic,” he remarked.
He further added, “We lost an election; set up a committee to find out why we lost. When we get the report, we do not want to share it with the public, and we say there are only a few copies”.
“We have seen that some people who want to be candidates have access to the report. The leadership of the party is following one candidate around and all of a sudden, we are hit with a date for selecting a flagbearer”, he added.
The NPP primaries are heating up with the main front runners for the NPP’s flagbearer position Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former Assin Central MP Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Minister for Agriculture Bryan Acheampong, and former Minister for Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum.
Godfred A. Bokpin, Professor of Finance and Economist at the University of Ghana has also waded into the New Patriotic Party (NPP) early primaries.
According to Professor Bokpin, there are certain suspicions the NPP’s early primaries are being conducted to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
He asserted that the primaries are being held in January next year to prevent Dr Bawumia’s popularity from declining.
Professor Bokpin is quoted by JOY News to have stated, “There is a certain suspicion that this is being done to the advantage of Dr Bawumia so as to prevent a decline in his popularity”.
Meanwhile, Justin Frimpong Kodua has rejected claims the party’s presidential primaries are skewed to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
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”.
