Martin Kpebu, a Private legal practitioner, has declared that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is not ready for the 2028 election.
Lawyer Kpebu asserted that the NPP has effectively ruled itself out of winning the 2028 general elections with the range of candidates they are presenting ahead of their primaries.
Speaking on The Key Point on Saturday, January 3, Martin Kpebu explained, “This whole range of candidates, it tells me one thing: the NPP is not ready for the 2028 election. They are not ready. This is the tone-deaf attitude that got them into opposition in the first place.
How can you parade Bawumia? Bawumia, who is a feather with Akufo-Addo? Such a man who helped Akufo-Addo to unleash terror on us, economic doldrums, right? Haircuts, left-right-centre. When… where is he going to get a better record to campaign? You have to bring somebody who is not tainted,” he said.
Lawyer Kpebu further detailed that Kennedy Agyapong’s temperament disqualifies him from serious presidential consideration
“When it comes to Kennedy Agyapong, you know, he lacks the temperament and everything to be president, so we’ll not waste any more time on that,” he added.
He added, “Bryan Acheampong, who wanted to take our hotels for a song. Bryan Acheampong wanted to take our hotels for a song, but for the leadership of Okudzeto, who mobilised Ghanaians. He will loot us dry. Bryan Acheampong will loot us dry,” he stated.
“He’s a good guy, but when you’re looking for a president, there must be that spark. He has not postured himself as someone who can be the father of the nation,” he said.
“Kwabena Agyapong, I have nothing to say that particularly. It’s just that his time is gone, that’s it,” he stated.
“They should bring the youngster, bring Boamah, so that he will contest 2028, lose, and then by 2032 everyone will say, ‘Yes, now he’s ripe,’” he stated.
Also, Nana Boadi Amponim Obo-dade III, the Krontihene of Akyem Asuom in the Eastern Region, has fumed at the standard of individuals contesting for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer election.
According to the Akyem Krontihene, all five NPP flagbearer aspirants should be placed on one ballot to contest President John Mahama.
The Krontihene of Akyem Asuom further tagged all five NPP presidential aspirations as ‘the sankwas five’.
He added that the sankwas five cannot be compared to the NPP of Da Rocha, Victor Owusu, Kofi Busia, Prof Adu-Boahen, Peter Ala Adjetey, and J.A. Kufuor, Nana Boadi Obo-dade III.
He asserted that the NPP had significantly declined in terms of quality human resources.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, December 7, 2025, the Akyem Krontihene stated, “Look, the NPP of Da Rocha, Victor Owusu, Kofi Busia, Prof Adu-Boahen, Ala Adjetey, J.A. Kufuor – those men of value and integrity – are not what we have today.
I tell you without mincing words that the five people contesting to be flagbearers are just sankwas compared to those. I call them the Sankwas Five.”
“If President Mahama should decide to contest, this is how the scale would be: all the Sankwas Five; Dr Bawumia, Kennedy Agyapong, Dr Bryan Acheampong, Adutwum, and Kwabena Agyei, all five of them should not even go and choose one, they should be placed on one ballot paper against President Mahama. This is how the scale would be, all of them there and Mahama here” he said.