The Member of Parliament for Mpraeso in the Eastern Region, Davis Ansah Opoku, has urged the national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to take the concerns of party members seriously in the ongoing post-election reforms.
According to him, the leadership’s posture towards the party’s internal review process has been opaque and dismissive of its grassroots base.
“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,” the MP wrote in a social media post on Friday, April 25.
Mr Opoku criticised the party’s failure to share findings from the post-election review committee chaired by Professor Mike Oquaye, warning that concealing the causes of their defeat could derail 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,” he added.
His concerns come as the NPP begins a constitutional amendment process to reposition the party for future electoral contests following its 2024 loss.
The party has opened a window for all members and recognised bodies to submit written proposals to the Office of the General Secretary.
But the Mpraeso MP questioned the basis for these proposals, citing a lack of shared data or diagnosis from the post-election review.
