I want to be President because... – Dr Afriyie Akoto

According to him, huge cracks have developed within his party that needs fixing in order for the NPP to regain its former glory.

He noted that Ghana’s current hung parliament in particular is a testament to how broken the party is.

Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express, he said the poor performance of the party in the 2020 elections would have to be remedied, and he is the man for the job.

“And the puzzling thing is given the first term of Akufo-Addo where there was no Covid and things were running for this country with the growth of the economy and so on, one would have thought that Ghanaians would actually give us a pat on the back by voting for even higher numbers than 2016, but what happened.

See the party is the machinery, if I called an uber here to take me to my house and the uber comes and the engine is broken, I could sit in that car forever and ever and it won’t move.

“Yes [the party’s engine is broken] because why is that we have good performance in the first term, our opposition didn’t have any message, NDC didn’t have any message for 2020 election and yet we nearly lost parliament and the majority side has been cut down

“That I’ll be given the opportunity by the delegates in the course of this year to bear the flag of the NPP and then I will do whatever it takes, even if it’s a week, at least the kind of measures that I have in mind to bring into the party would ginger our party to the action,” he said.