Francis Addai-Nimoh, a 2024 flag bearer aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has asserted that the party’s leadership should have resigned on principle following the humiliating defeat it suffered in the last election.
He says the national leadership of the party should have stepped down for leading the party to such an unprecedented defeat, rather than still holding themselves as party executives.
Addai-Nimoh, speaking on Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, indicated that even if the leadership wasn’t going to resign, they could have issued a communique stating that they would oversee the party’s activities until the next congress elected new leadership.
The former lawmaker for Mampong also asserted that any member of the current leadership with ambitions to recontest in the next election should step aside on principle due to the defeat they led the party to suffer.
“The principle is that, if you lead a certain group for a war and you lose to this extent, and if the principle is there, the leadership should have resigned on their own,” he told host, JB.
“The national officers should have either resigned or say; ‘we are holding on till the next election’ and none of them should have contested again,” he added, further suggesting the need for an interim committee to steer affairs of the party until a substantive election is organised.
“They should have been an interim management committee to take over. There should have been a statement saying; ‘if any of us had an ambition to contest again, we all should have stayed out.”
Meanwhile, he had earlier stated on the same show that the election of former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the party’s flag bearer contributed to their defeat.
He explained that although all the ten candidates cleared by the vetting committee to contest were suitable, Bawumia wasn’t the most suitable to lead the NPP.
Election 2024: Bawumia wasn’t the most suitable candidate for NPP – Addai-Nimoh
