Veteran New Patriotic Party (NPP) figure Boakye Agyarko has delivered a powerful critique of the party's current direction, calling on leadership and the rank-and-file to return to the movement's founding ideals before it loses its relevance and moral authority.
In a recent statement titled "Teachings From Our Past: Things We Must Avoid," Agyarko painted a picture of a party straying dangerously from its core principles.
He argued that what once was a party of shared ideas, values, and national purpose is now degenerating into a fragmented organization hijacked by narrow interests. "The NPP is at a critical crossroads," Agyarko stated. "We have become a label-stripped of the soul, values, and principles that once bound us together." He warned that internal elections have become more about access to power and personal gain than about service, principle, or leadership.
For Agyarko, the party's crisis is not just political but moral. "Our internal contests have become battlegrounds instead of mechanisms to choose the best among us," he said. "The idea of service has been replaced by the scramble for opportunity." He pointed to mass member registration and grassroots empowerment as the only viable path forward, suggesting that the NPP can only reclaim its founding identity by restoring the voice of the ordinary party member. "We must move away from control to growing the party by empowering the rank and file," he urged.
