Dr , the (NPP) MP for Effiduase/Asokore and 2024 Middle Belt Campaign Coordinator for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has issued a warning to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) about the 2028 presidential election.

In a social media post dated Saturday, 26 April 2025, Dr Afriye predicted that the NDC will struggle to alter a long-standing electoral narrative, where new candidates from ruling parties lose to familiar opposition figures, urging the party to prepare accordingly. "Any new presidential candidate who emerged on the ticket of a ruling government lost it to the familiar faced opposition presidential candidate," he noted.

Dr Afriye's analysis draws on historical trends in Ghana's Fourth Republic, which began in 1992.

He highlighted that new presidential candidates from ruling governments have consistently failed to secure victory against well-known opposition candidates.