Leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has distanced itself from recent remarks by its Ashanti and Bono Regional Chairmen, concerning the party’s upcoming presidential primary.
Bernard Antwi Boasiako, a.k.a. Wontumi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman, is reported to have said the party leadership decided to organise the election on January 31, 2026, to favour a particular candidate.
The Bono Regional Chair, Kwame Baffoe Agyei, popularly known as Abronye, on the other hand, has reportedly said he will prevent certain elements in the party from taking part in the upcoming primary since he is in charge of the register compilation in the region.
But the party says these remarks do not represent its official position.
A Sunday, September 28, 2025 statement issued and signed by the party’s General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, dismissed the assertions, stressing that no individual, irrespective of rank or position, wields unilateral control over the compilation of polling station albums.
He assured party members that the National Secretariat will, in due course, issue clear and transparent guidelines to guarantee the credibility, integrity and fairness in the exercise, while clarifying that the compilation of album is guided by strict compliance procedures.
It added that the January 31 date for the presidential primary was influenced by “exhaustive deliberations in the supreme interest of the party”, calling on all stakeholders, especially polling station executives, to disregard the utterances he describes as misleading.
“The decision to hold an early congress is intended solely to provide the Party with sufficient time and strategic advantage to reorganise, reposition, and recapture power in 2028,” the statement explained.
