Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Arthur Kennedy, has urged the party’s current national executives to seek a fresh mandate ahead of the 2028 general elections.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Saturday, June 21, 2025, Dr. Kennedy stressed that this call is not necessarily a critique of their performance but a vital democratic step to realign the party’s leadership with its grassroots base.
“I think the first order of business is that our current executives should renew their mandate,” he stated. “It doesn’t mean anybody did anything wrong or otherwise. But they should go for a fresh mandate.”
He explained that a renewed electoral process would allow party supporters to express approval or disapproval of specific individuals within the executive body.
“Sometimes, when they go to the grassroots, they might say executive A was good, so their mandate needs to be renewed, but executive B should go and sit and let a new person come and help,” he said.
Dr. Kennedy referenced recent political analysis, including exit polling by Musa Dankwa, as evidence that many Ghanaians remain dissatisfied with the NPP’s performance in the last elections, which saw the party secure one of its weakest mandates.
“To use Dr. Bawumia’s analogy — if you consider the exit polling and what Musa Dankwa said — maybe there are certain people who need to be on the hypothetical bus he talked about. So we get new drivers and new leaders,” Dr. Kennedy stated.
He concluded by calling for accountability from those who presided over the party’s electoral decline.
“We need to look at those who took us from one of Ghana’s strongest mandates to those who took us to the weakest mandate.”
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