A former Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has said the elephant party is now an empty shell.
The man who now belongs to Alan Kyerematen’s Movement for Change says the party is now being led by people with different political antecedents who lack the spirit of the Dankwa-Busia-Dombo tradition to drive it.
He made the comments on TV3’s KeyPoints Saturday, August 24, 2024, when Dr. Prince Hamidu Armah, the Member of Parliament for Kwesimintsim and Deputy Minister of Works and Housing, urged him to return to the party.
According to the lawmaker, Buaben Asamoa was one of the few persons he looked up to in the NPP back in the days, and he is disappointed his then role model now belongs to a Movement different from the party.
During a discussion on the show, Dr. Armah indicated that “in fact he (Buaben Asamoa) was one of the few members in the party I looked up to. I feel very disappointed I see him in this yellow.
“I engaged him as far back as 2006/2007 when he was leading His Excellency Aliu Mahama’s campaign and I was also doing something else so he is somebody that I really respect and I feel very disappointed that he’s moved.”
He expressed optimism for the future adding that “and I’m hoping that he will come back. I just hope that one day God will answer my prayers and see my senior brother to come back to where he truly belongs to.”
When host Alfred Ocansey asked if those prayers would be heard?, Mr. Buaben Asamoa said “it’s an empty shell. That’s why I’m saying he is coming to the point where he has to reconcile his inner conscience.”
“The NPP is now an empty shell. It doesn’t exist as NPP anymore. It’s been led by the CPP, it’s now being ‘flag-beared’ by the NDC antecedents and the PNC so rarely, where is the NPP?” he quizzed.
Despite admitting that people from different political backgrounds come together to form a political party, Buaben Asamoa thinks those leading the NPP now lack the wherewithal to direct the party’s activities.
According to him, “there is no fidelity to political structures anymore. Now it’s about individuals who have capacity because across all the parties, you’ll find a mix of different political personalities who have been in different political organisations who have now come together across board so in reality, you’ll now need to look at the quality of the individual, a leader.”
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