Statesman and Elder of the opposition New Patriotic Party Kwame Pianim says he and other founding members are worried and anxious about the current direction of the party.
This comes as the NPP faces the challenge of uniting its front following its loss in the 2024 general elections.
It also follows the decision of the current leadership to hold its presidential primary in January 2026 ahead of other grassroot elections and the latest social media banter between two spokespersons for the party’s presidential aspirants.
In an exclusive interview with 3news on August 8, Mr. Pianim expressed his personal worry about what is going on. “We are trying to restructure the party. We are trying to get the young people who are running the party to halt, look and listen so that we get the direction right”.
He added that the elders together with founding members were considering holding a stakeholder’s engagement to redirect the party.
“I know a lot of founding members of the party who are unhappy with the direction and state of the party and who are anxious and contacting the current leadership of the party both in Parliament, the National Secretariat and the Council of Elders to try to hold a stakeholder’s engagement to look at the direction and state of the party”.
Although there are two major political parties in Ghana, the NPP and the current governing NDC, Kwame Pianim says he fears the current happenings in the party could render the NPP irrelevant in the coming years if leaders don’t put their acts together.
“We are worried about the direction the young people are taking the party and I hoping that we will soon get our acts together to rebuild, to restructure, and build a united front and to move forward,” he noted.
Kwame Pianim, who is a former presidential aspirant of the NPP who was defeated in the party’s presidential primary at the time former President Kufour was elected, said the young leaders of the NPP now will have to listen because what happens to the party will be their future.
“They have to listen because it’s their future. It is not my future. The young people in the NP now, it’s their future. If we do not listen and restructure our party, the NPP will become as irrelevant to the politics of Ghana as the CPP has become now,” Mr Pianim warned.
