Akwatia by-election: NPP risks disintegration if they fail to address their issues – Gyampo
CEO of the Ghana Shippers Authority, Professor Ransford Gyampo Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and also CEO Ghana Shippers’ Authority, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has told the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to address the many issues that caused their defeat in the 2024 general elections.
He expressed the view that the NPP risks disintegration if it fails to address the many issues.
Speaking on the upcoming Akwatia byelection on TV3’s Key Points Saturday, August 30, he said, ” The NPP risks disintegration if it fails to address the many issues bordering how they are conducting themselves ahead of this by-election and the ultimate flagbearership race.”
For his part, a Private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil, said that the Akwatia by-election will not make any difference in terms of the numbers in parliament, especially for the New Patriotic Party.
He suggested that the NPP rather focus its energies on its upcoming flagbearer elections.
“What difference does it make in parliament? On a scale of importance in NPP, this is one per cent. What they have to focus on is the election of their flagbearer,” he said.
For his part, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana, Prof. Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya, expressed the view that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should have allowed the wife of the late MP for Akwati to contest in the by-election.
