Former (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, , has expressed concern about the current status of the party, which he said is drifting away from what a political party should be.
In a write-up cited by , Boakye Agyarko asserted that the NPP has now become what he describes as a "LABEL", which he says means a party that has lost its soul and is being captured by groups of cabals. "Instead, we in our current form have become a LABEL (that is, a party that has lost its bearing, its soul, and the common strands of ideas, ideals, values, goals and principles that, hitherto, bound us together), under which groups of cabals seek to capture, through our internal elections, the NPP LABEL, and use it for their narrow ends. "Stuart Stevens put it in a much harsher tone in his book, It Was All a Big Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.
He wrote, '… a political party without a higher purpose is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate.
There is no organised, coherent purpose other than the acquisition of and maintenance of power'," he wrote in the write-up, which he titled "Teachings from Our Past: Things We Must Avoid." Boakye Agyarko, who was the Minister for Energy during the first term of former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, pointed out that the current status of the party has excluded a lot of the party's faithful in its decision-making and it is what has made its internal elections so intense. "These selfish and narrow ends only seek to exclude all who are not 'with them' from whatever gains power may bring.
