The New Patriotic Party has been advised to stay focused and devise strategies to grow the party instead of washing their dirty linen in public.
A leading member of the party, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko, who made the call says the recent public utercations between leadership of the party is putting the party in a bad light, advising that such attitude will not yield the party any results.
According to him, the party rather concentrates on expanding its grassroots base and avoid the unnecessary public bickering. “We need to grow the party and not control it,” he said in a radio interview.
Agarko on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, announced his intention to contest the national chairmanship of the party after what he described as consultations “with members of my family and those who are very close to me, and whose lives would be most affected by the decisions I make.”
In a statement announcing his intention to contest for the position, he said he had been attentive to the demands of the party’s grassroots and the wider public, saying, “I have also listened carefully to what the broad masses of our party people, and indeed many outside our party, are asking of me.”
“Having factored in all the considerations, I see it as my bounden duty to respond to this call to duty, and hereby announce that I will contest for the position of national chairman of my party upon the opening of nominations,” he said.
Mr Agyarko, who served as Minister of Energy under former President William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, criticised what he saw as a growing disconnect between the party’s leadership and its base.
Agyarko in the interview after declaring his intentions argued that the disconnect was partly responsible for declining engagement among floating members.
“There are many people whose lives remain unchanged, whether the party is in power or in opposition. So, once they become frustrated, they lose interest in the party,” he said.
He stated that Ghanaians were more concerned about solutions to their daily challenges than political noise and warned that the party risks losing public confidence if it continued with internal disputes in the open.
He cited the ongoing dispute involving the Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe Abronye, and the party’s leadership, and advised that such issues be resolved internally.
