The Member of Parliament for Mpraeso in the Eastern Region, Davis Ansah Opoku, has expressed disappointment with the national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over their handling of the party’s post-election review.
According to him, the process lacks transparency and disregards the concerns of the party’s grassroots and general membership.
In a social media post on Friday, April 25, the NPP lawmaker warned that failure to make public the reasons behind the party’s electoral defeat, as captured in the Professor Mike Oquaye-led review committee report, will hinder the party’s recovery.
“If we fail to open up the sore and press it properly, it will not heal. Surprisingly, the same party — of which we are all integral members — charged a committee to investigate the reasons behind our electoral defeat.
“When the committee visited the Mpraeso Constituency, I had to rush down to meet with them and immediately return to Parliament to fulfil my duties. That’s how seriously I took the exercise. Now that the committee has completed its work, not even a communiqué has been issued to share the executive summary of its findings,” the MP wrote.
Meanwhile, the NPP has begun a constitutional amendment process as part of efforts to reposition the party for future electoral contests after losing the 2024 polls.
The party has opened a window for all members and recognised bodies to submit written proposals to the Office of the General Secretary.
Reacting to this in his post, the Mpraeso MP, who described the posture of the party’s leadership as dismissive, questioned the basis on which proposals are being requested.
“Are we being invited to submit proposals for constitutional amendments? Proposals based on what data? On what facts? On what diagnosis?
“The national party must take its members seriously. This is not how you recover from a humiliating defeat. We cannot pretend to fix the structure without first acknowledging what broke it,” he stated.
