Politics

I would’ve thrown Akufo-Addo out of NPP if I were the Chairman – Amoako Baah

Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, a political scientist and prominent New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, asserts that he would have expelled former President Akufo-Addo from the party if he were the chairman.

According to Dr. Baah, Akufo-Addo bears significant responsibility for the NPP’s loss in the 2024 general election, noting that many party members are aware of the truth but are too afraid to speak out.

“They are still afraid to speak up. They want to talk about the president, but they are not able to because he is the one who caused the whole defeat. It should be put on his head. He is the person behind this whole thing. He became very unpopular. He became arrogant, you know, and did whatever he wanted — even threatened his own party members, the MPs. Some of them, he actually campaigned against. How does that happen? If I were the chairman, I would have thrown him out of the party,” he said.

Dr. Baah also criticized NPP Chairman Stephen Ayesu Ntim for allowing Akufo-Addo to act without restraint, alleging that the former president threatened Members of Parliament.

In a TV3 interview, Dr. Baah, former head of the Political Science Department at KNUST, claimed Akufo-Addo still seeks to control the party despite the election defeat.

“No president should be given the power to do such a thing — to campaign against your own party members. Does the party belong to him? But of course, he held all the cards, so he thought he could do whatever he wanted, and this is what brought us to this point.

He hijacked the whole party. After bringing us to this disastrous end, he should have kept quiet, walked away into the sunset, and sat somewhere quietly. But he still wants to control the party,” Dr. Baah stated.

He vowed to resist any attempts by Akufo-Addo to influence the NPP’s future.

“We are not going to agree to that. The party is not his. He still wants to have a say in who becomes the next president. Even when the results came out, Info Analytics made it clear. That alone should have told him to be quiet and leave the party alone.

“If you want your party to do well, this is an indication that you have become very unpopular and should step aside. But no, they still want to control everything. It doesn’t work that way. If you were popular, it wouldn’t work that way — and now that you are colossally a failure, we will not agree,” he added.

Dr. Baah cited Akufo-Addo’s refusal to reshuffle his appointees despite public outcry as a key factor in the NPP’s defeat.