A leading member of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, is admonishing the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, to live up to the cause for which Ghanaians voted for the NDC.
He says the party promised to recover all state assets that have been looted by government officials (Operation Recover All Loot – ORAL), and should ensure that cause is pursued in order not to incur the wrath of Ghanaians.
Owusu, a former member of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), is urging the A-G to prosecute those responsible for the stalling of some major infrastructure projects despite securing loans to complete them.
Citing the Suame Interchange, along with the Pokuase-Nsawam road construction, which has all stalled, Owusu explained that the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration took loans to complete the projects, but finished the funds without the infrastructures making progress.
His comments stemmed from the NPP’s decision to expand its electoral college for its internal elections, which Owusu says does not matter, but rather the person who leads the party, highlighting the fact that the poor performance of the NPP’s eight-year rule will not be forgotten soon by the citizenry.
Owusu, speaking on the BigIssue segment on TV3’s morning show, NewDay, on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, called on the A-G to start prosecuting how the funds were expensed without the projects being completed.
He reemphasised that their performance and candidates are what matter, and not how they are elected.
“How is your expansion of your delegates system going to erase from the minds of the people that indeed the country, Ghana, went for a loan of US$750 million from Afrexim Bank to finish the Pokuase-Nsawam road, to finish the Suame Interchange, to finish the Kwabenya road? The money is finished, but the road isn’t completed?
“How is your expansion going to erase that from the minds? That’s why we have that terrible situation there.”
“And I don’t know what the Attorney-General and this administration are doing. They must be very careful. The people of this country voted for a cause. They voted for the promise of ‘Operation Recover All Loot’. We are done with the funeral; the tears are over. Come back to business. It’s non-negotiable,” he lamented.
His comments follow the closing of nominations by the party for its flag bearer aspirants tomorrow, Thursday, August 28, 2025, with the presidential primary expected to be conducted on January 31, 2025.
The party’s highest decision-making conference, during its last meeting to decide on the date for the primary, voted to expand the electoral college by 40 per cent.
This effectively expanded the party’s electoral college, adding more than 60,000 polling station executives to the existing 220,000, enlarging the size of the voters to more than 280,000.
This means all former Members of Parliament (MPs), former parliamentary candidates, former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), card-holding former ministers and deputy ministers, as well as former regional, constituency and branch executives will participate in the election of the flag bearer in January 2026.
However, delegates at the polling station, constituency and regional levels, who are now part of the enlarged electoral college, will not be eligible to vote in the January 2026 election when the party goes to elect a flag bearer for the 2028 general election.
This is because the election of those officers will be done after March 2026, following the conclusion of the current tenure of the polling station, constituency and regional level executives.
Background
The nine-member Constitution Amendment Committee, led by Frank Davies, was formed by the National Council of the party to review and propose amendments to the party’s constitution.
The committee members include the Deputy Minority Leader and MP for Asokwa, Patricia Appiagyei; MP for Ofoase Ayiribi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah; a Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Dr Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko, the Volta Regional Chairman of the NPP, and Makafui Woanyah.
The rest are a former Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Diana Asonaba Dapaah; a former MP for Ablekuma Central, Ebenezer Nartey, and a medical officer, Dr Ekua Amoakoh.
Mr. Iddi Muhayu-Deen served as secretary to the committee.
The committee’s mandate included identifying provisions of the party’s constitution that require amendments to give effect to the recommendations of the Mike Oquaye Election Review Committee; working on the recommendations of the 2021 Constitutional Review Committee, chaired by Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader, and receiving proposals for constitutional amendments from party members and identifiable groups.
The committee was also tasked to categorise proposals under various Articles and Clauses for ease of reference, and make appropriate recommendations to guide the debate at the National Annual Delegates Conference.
The committee’s report was consequently tabled in amendment motions, which were the subject of the votes at the party’s delegates conference on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
‘It’s who leads the party that matters, not expansion of register’ – Solomon Owusu to NPP
