Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a founder member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has hit back at the party’s Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Haruna Mohammed, over claims he was never a founding member of the NPP.
According to Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, Haruna Mohammed should shut up as he does not have time for ignorant people.
He recounted that Haruna Mohammed, some years ago, in a live interview, made similar claims, but he was vindicated when a party member who handled his founding membership document called in to clarify matters.
Speaking in an interview on TV3’s Ghana Tonight on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe stated, “When people are ignorant, I have no time for them.”
“I remember about a year or two ago, he made a similar claim when I was having a discussion, and he came on air.
“And a lady called in, a lady called Madam Acquaye, an elderly woman and then made it plain that she was then Secretary to the General Secretary and also worked for the then Chairman of the party, B.J Darocha, and she handled my founding membership document, myself and lawyer Koku Ziti. She mentioned the two of us,” he remarked.
Nyaho-Tamakloe noted, “So, whoever spoke when NPP was formed years ago, I don’t know where he was, and I don’t even know whether he has even had a relative at all in the party like some of the people that we know, so he should shut up”.
“If I am not a founding member of the party and I am even a street sweeper and I have sympathy for the party, I have every right to talk when the party is going wrong,” Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe stressed.
His comments come on the heels of Haruna Mohammed, who has said that Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe is not a founding member of the party.
The NPP Deputy General Secretary explained that NPP founding members are those who signed the document at the Electoral Commission, adding that Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe never signed any document.
Speaking in an interview with JoyNews on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Haruna Mohammed stated, “People who are founding members of our party are known. There were people who signed the document at the Electoral Commission. Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe never signed any document. So, please, I am the Deputy General Secretary of the party, I am telling you that he is not a founding member of the party”.
He further added that Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe was suspended from the NPP in 2016 and was again suspended in 2023.
“Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe was suspended as a member on March 3, 2016 and again on October 14, 2023, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe said, and I quote ‘I was a member of the NPP until Mahama came into the scene – Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe reveals’,” he added.
“Our party is a party of rules; you cannot tell us that you are no more a member of the party and come and arrogate yourself a founding member,” he concluded.