Yaw Buaben Asamoa, the General Secretary of the United Party (UP), has said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) got too arrogant and lacks values.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews’ The Pulse, Yaw Buaben Asamoa revealed that he does not intend to go back to the NPP.
It will be recalled that the NPP revoked the membership of Yaw Buaben Asamoa and three others after they publicly endorsed Alan Kyeremanten, other than the party’s elected flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Yaw Buaben Asamoa, speaking on JOYNEWS, stated, “Everything they performed was overshadowed by the lack of humaneness. For me, that is the biggest problem that party has. It got too arrogant”.
“I don’t intend to go back to the NPP. They don’t have values. First of all, let’s examine the NPP — which NPP are we talking about now?”
“As far as I recollect, the roots of the NPP came from the CPP tradition for about eight years. The party was later managed by a chairman who had CPP roots but became NPP. The presidential candidate that took over has NDC antecedents, and his wife is from a PNC family with NDC connections,” he explained.
His remarks come at a time when Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen’s newly rebranded United Party (UP).
Also, National Chairman of the United Party, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, has rejected the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) amnesty to return to the party.
According to Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, they were sacked and have no intention of going back to the NPP.
He emphasised that the NPP had no moral ground to offer forgiveness when no crime had been committed to warrant their expulsion.
Speaking during the rebranding of the Movement of Change to the United Party, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique stated, “We were sacked from the NPP, but now they want to grant us amnesty? We will not go back”.
“We were sacked. But today they claim they are giving us amnesty. What does amnesty mean? What crime did our leader commit? What crime did I commit in the NPP for you to sack me? And today you are telling me you are giving me amnesty. No way,” he said.
He further drew a comparison to their situation with that of Islamic marriage, “When you divorce a woman three times in Islam, she’s no longer your wife until kingdom come,” he added, amid applause”.
Meanwhile, Inusah Fuseini, the former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has weighed in on Alan Kyerematen’s rebranding of his Movement for Change into a full-blown political party.
Recall Alan Kyerematen, after the NPP’s primary defeat, left to form the Movement for Change to contest the 2024 general election as an independent candidate.
According to Inusah Fuseini, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) made a tragic mistake in letting Alan Kyerematen leave the party.
He emphasised that if Alan’s United Party grows strong and formidable, that could signal the demise of the NPP.
Inusah Fuseini is quoted by TV3 to have said, The NPP made a tragic mistake by letting Alan Kyerematen leave their party. In my view, if the United Party grows strong and formidable, that will signal the demise of the NPP”.