Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer aspirant, Kwabena Agyepong, has urged the party’s leadership to prioritise addressing internal issues in the wake of its defeat in the 2024 general elections.
His remarks come amid ongoing discussions about the NPP’s direction and strategy ahead of the next electoral cycle.
In an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Channel One TV’s Face to Face on Tuesday, April 29, Agyepong emphasised the need for introspection and strategic reforms to rebuild trust within the party’s support base.
“My feeling was that we should concentrate more on the things that we do to repair whatever damage we have seen. And those of us senior members of our party, by and large, we know exactly what went wrong and so, trying to fix it has to be our priority,” he said.
He proposed that senior party figures should have met privately to thoroughly analyse the party’s performance using the post-election report led by Professor Mike Oquaye.
According to Agyepong, such a meeting could have produced concrete solutions and effective strategies to restore voter confidence.
“That is why I think perhaps I said we should have gone into conclave with this report [Prof. Mike Oquaye’s election report], with a few senior figures of the campaign and the party and dissect the report and distil from it the kind of suggestions and interventions that will bring our supporters back.”
He also highlighted the historically low voter turnout in the NPP’s traditional strongholds — the Ashanti and Eastern regions — as a clear sign of dissatisfaction among core supporters.
“A huge amount of our support base failed to turn up [2024 elections]. The lowest turnout happened in our two strongholds — the Ashanti region and the Eastern region. That should tell us something that our core base was not too happy with us as a political party.
“Any step we take now is to be able to win back the confidence they have in our political tradition, so for me, winning back the flock is important. And those are the steps we need to concentrate on.”
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