By Prince Ofosu Sefah
12th October, 2025
We all know we lost bigley in 2024 – by 1.7m votes. We also know there are critical failure factors identified by research.
Some of these factors, such as the 8-year itch for change, are already passé.
We are poised for significant recovery in 2028, if we play our cards well.
In fact, as is unusual, we could even win after just 4 years primarily because the incumbent NDC President is term-limited.
While JM’s Name ID as a 4-Time Flagbearer, twice-sworn-in former President with obvious unusually high-level links to resources and support networks must have helped him win more resoundingly in 2024, the NDC has essentially gone for broke/a ready-made option, and now need a new Flagbearer midstream in their first term! They made their bed, and now have to lie in it.
Let’s all be careful and realise that to change Flagbearer, is a seismic event that must make clear sense to millions of Ghanaians, at least, about 4.9m of them who voted for DMB in 2024.
Being an avid data-driven person, I realize that too many of the 4.9m will be apoplectic, especially, if Ken, who did not act very well prior to his presidential run, and more significantly, during his run in 2023, and to a smaller extent, in 2024 and 2025, to significantly contribute to the depth of our 2024 loss and continuing problems whereby even a thank you tour gets marred and subjects the Party to public ridicule.
He has plenty of tapes upsetting unwealthy people, villagers, farmers, women, the religious, etc.
He publicly said in 2023 that we lost the Elections in 2022. He brushed all our Appointees with the deadly stroke of corruption. He said NPP people are stupid and questioned himself why he belongs to such a Party – which damages Brand NPP in the eyes of many Ghanaians. He made proven unfounded allegations against colleagues such as Asenso-Boakye. He has threatened the entire party severally. And, he accused key elements in the Party for offering him a whopping $800m bribe to quit running for President.
Close to the Elections in 2024, he went to known anti-NPP KSM’s show to say things have deteriorated, and were worse to the point that change needs Ghanaians.
Now, he is having an identity crisis between being calm and boisterous, in a contrived way to try to win the nomination.
So, the bottom line is that, such an alternative could devastate our Party if he were to win. Believe me, such a scenario could set our Party back at least, for a generation, especially, if the NDC offers a palatable ticket. We also stand to lose the one key advantage we may have, if he is nominated – putting up a two-time relatively well-marketed Flagbearer going against a first-time NDC Flagbearer.
As for our brothers BA, YOA and KAA, while they may be variously and relatively more palatable alternatives than Ken to many of us, the palpable fear of Ken also sitting in between them and DMB, stares in the eyes of many a vanguard of the soul of the Party.
In view of all these complications, we have to make prudent decisions, first of all in these most perilous times for the NPP, for its safety, and then to give us our best chance to recover the fastest from a big loss, is to stick with the one at least 4.9m Ghanaians have invested in already.
If we could unite, we have a reasonable chance in 2028, if the NDC continues like how they are going now.
