Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, Chair of NPP’s 2024 Election Review Panel
• Calls for Transparency as Party Faces Internal Discontent
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is facing renewed criticism from within its own ranks after it emerged that the party spent an estimated GHC6 million on a post-election review committee whose findings remain under lock and key.
The review, commissioned by the party’s National Council (NC) and led by former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, was tasked with examining the causes of the party’s decisive loss in the 2024 general election, in which it garnered just 38.2% of the vote. Yet, months after its completion, no summary or report has been released to party structures or the public, prompting accusations of opacity and mismanagement.
Several party insiders have questioned the cost and structure of the review process, particularly the reported allocation of significant funds to high-end office accommodation in Accra, instead of channelling resources into direct consultations with grassroots members.
“If the purpose was to understand what went wrong at the constituency level, the committee should have been in the field, not in offices,” said one regional party organiser who requested anonymity.
Mpraeso MP Davis Opoku-Ansah has become one of the first public figures within the party to openly demand the report’s release. “Party members deserve clarity and accountability, especially when such large sums have been committed at a time when we’re struggling financially,” he told The Hawk Newspaper.
The development has ignited fresh debate around the party’s internal governance and financial oversight. Some members allege that elected officials have been sidelined, with financial decisions increasingly influenced by parallel networks outside the party’s constitutional framework.
Dr Charles Dwamena, the party’s National Treasurer, is understood to have raised concerns about the expenditure, though he has not publicly commented.
Many critics, including political analysts, say the reasons for the party’s electoral defeat are already well-documented: economic hardship, high youth unemployment, and a growing perception of elitism and disconnect from the public. “It does not require millions of cedis to reach that conclusion,” one analyst noted.
As frustration builds, some party activists are reportedly organising a demonstration in Accra to demand the publication of the report and broader reforms within the party. Without transparency and a serious reckoning, observers warn that the NPP risks deepening its internal divisions and losing further credibility among both members and the wider electorate.
Neither the General Secretary nor the National Chairman of the NPP has issued a response.
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