There are lots of comments about how long the NPP should stay in opposition. Some are saying 8 years and others are saying 32 years, well don’t just underestimate the NPP no matter how long you believe the party should stay in opposition. Even former President Jerry Rawlings of blessed memory never underestimated the NPP.

What you must Remember:

1. The NPP with no parliamentary seat in 1992, went on to win 60 seats in 1996 elections. Arguably, that group of NPP parliamentarians still remains the best in Ghana’s parliamentary history.

2. Prior to the 2000 elections, party stalwarts like Dr. Jones Ofori-Attah, Kwame Pianim, and Alhaji Inusah resigned from the party just few months to the December 2000 elections. It is clear, therefore that things were not rosy in 2000. Yet, Kufuor won.

3. Happenings in the party prior to the 2016 elections are so recent that even political neophytes still remember how the party went into that elections without a substantive National Chairman and General Secretary.

Now, people are prophesying disunity and divisions within the party moving forward and others are on a never ending fault finding mission. While one would have wished for a united party at this point in time, I dare say that what is going on in the NPP is nothing new, we have been here before and our ability to always get out of such situations leaves so much to be desired.

I recently chanced on a book written by Ivor Agyeman-Duah titled “Between Faith and History” A Biography of J.A Kufuor  which chronicles how bad things were in the party prior to the 2000 elections.

On Kufuor’s relationship with then Party Chairman Ala Adjetey (who was later replaced by Odoi Sykes), Agyeman-Duah wrote: “Still, there were little wars he had to fight. The relationship between him and Peter Ala Adjetey was never good… Kufuor and his supporters accused Ala Adjetey of sabotaging Kufuor’s interest because of his pro-Adu Boahen love” (pp. 92-93).

On the state of the party in 2000, Agyeman-Duah painted the following picture: “The party secretariat itself was disillusioned… The Chairman, Odoi Sykes, according to close party sources, wanted to resign” (p. 105).

What is happening now in the party is just a storm in a tea cup, things were bad in the past but we weathered it and sailed through to victory.

This one too shall pass.

We are the New Patriotic Party and the Elephant is our winning symbol.

Agenda 2028

Still it is Possible.

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