By Musah Superior
Every seasoned political observer knows that internal discipline is the backbone of any serious governing party. While political organizations naturally house different viewpoints, those debates belong inside party meeting rooms. When disagreement is rushed onto the front pages of national newspapers, it ceases to be constructive engagement and turns into public sabotage.
That is the sharp reality facing the New Patriotic Party as former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko steps forward to seek the national chairmanship.
Mr. Agyarko has claimed on several platforms that he has never been uncharitable to anyone in the party. That assertion is simply not true.
The public record tells a different story. In June 2025, writing in the Daily Graphic, Mr. Agyarko reacted publicly to a decision taken by our National Executive Committee regarding the scheduling of party primaries. Rather than upholding the decision or using internal channels, he described the choice of the party’s leadership as “organisationally reckless” and claimed it lacked “common sense.”
Those were his exact words, printed in the nation’s leading newspaper for all to read.
THE STATUTORY COLLISION: AGYARKO'S WORDS VS NPP CONSTITUTION
Event: National Executive Committee (NEC) decision on presidential primary timelines
Agyarko's Published Remarks: Termed NEC's directive "organisationally reckless" and without "common sense"
Constitutional Obligation: Article 3(4)d mandates ALL members to "abide by and publicly uphold" party decisions
Targeted Body: The National Executive Committee, including two former presidents, parliamentary leaders, and party elders
By launching that public attack, Mr. Agyarko did not merely violate Article 3(4)d of the NPP Constitution, which requires every single member to abide by and publicly defend party decisions. He openly disparaged the third-highest decision-making body in our party.
The National Executive Committee is not an abstract assembly. Its membership includes two former presidents of Ghana, a former vice president, our parliamentary leadership, the chairperson of the Council of Elders, and some of the most dedicated stalwarts of our tradition. Calling their collective wisdom “reckless” in public print was the most uncharitable statement anyone could make about the leadership of our party.
One cannot eat their cake and have it. You cannot publicly undermine the party’s highest decision-making bodies and simultaneously present yourself as a unifier fit to lead the entire organization.
The NPP has built its reputation on tradition, order, and respect for constituted authority. That framework of discipline is precisely what makes our party a more structured, credible, and reliable political institution than the opposition NDC, where public discord often replaces institutional process.
Electing Boakye Agyarko as National Chairman is not in the best interest of the NPP. Placing our national leadership in the hands of someone who runs to the press to condemn party decisions will create constant friction at the top. It would be a terrible idea for the future and stability of our party.
