A viral video showing Bryan Acheampong, NPP flagbearer hopeful and Abetifi MP, making tribal remarks against Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has drawn sharp condemnation from within his own party. One of the most notable responses has come from Musah Superior, a former Mayor of Tamale, former Deputy Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, and a onetime General Secretary aspirant of the NPP. His voice matters. He is no fringe commentator but a senior figure with deep roots in the party’s history and grassroots mobilisation.
In his statement, Musah Superior described Bryan Acheampong’s comments as “hideous” and “grotesque,” calling on him to apologise to Dr Bawumia, the NPP, and the people of Ghana. He argued that it was unworthy of any NPP leader to reduce the party’s 2024 electoral struggles to tribal lines.
Musah Superior reminded the party that Bawumia did not lose because of his ethnic background. “The 2024 elections came after eight challenging years of NPP in office,” he wrote, pointing to economic hardship, the high cost of living, the Domestic Debt Exchange, unemployment, and relentless media criticism. “No presidential candidate in the Fourth Republic has carried such a heavy political burden into an election year. That was the true circumstance, and it had nothing to do with Bawumia’s tribe.”
He further dismissed Bryan’s reference to the Kusasi-Mamprusi conflict as reckless, saying, “Data and history rubbish his claim. In Ghana’s democracy, individuals do not win elections on personal strength alone; they win on the back of their political parties and the performance of their governments.”
To make his case, Musah Superior highlighted the electoral trend: a resounding million-vote win and parliamentary majority in 2016, which shrank into a hung Parliament in 2020, well before Bawumia became the NPP’s candidate. The seeds of the 2024 defeat, he argued, were sown years earlier.
His conclusion was both a warning and a call for unity. “Our strength has always been in unity, not division. When the primaries are over in January 2026, we will still need one another — Mamprusi, Kusasi, Muslim, Christian, north and south alike — to rebuild and return NPP to power.”
Musah Superior’s words cut to the core of the matter: the NPP cannot afford leaders who weaponise tribal differences for political gain. If the party is to regroup and return to power, it must confront its governance record honestly, avoid scapegoating, and commit to inclusivity. Bryan Acheampong’s remarks fall short of that standard, and the call for an apology is one the party leadership should not ignore
