Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the 2024 running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has given a cryptic reply to GHOne TV’s Serwaa Amihere on whether he wants to be president or not.
Napo, speaking on the GHOne Morning Show with Serwaa Amihere, when asked if he wants to be president, disclosed that one must learn how to serve before leading.
He, however, highlighted that those seeking to become President on the ticket of the NPP are already going through the process.
Read the dialogue between the two below:
Serwaa Amihere: Do you want to be President?
Napo: No, those who want to be president are going through the process.
Serwaa Amihere: Not now, maybe in the near future
Napo: What is the future here?
Serwaa Amihere: Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, do you ever want to be president?
Napo: That is not why I am working for Dr Bawumia. I don’t know even the word ever; I don’t understand when there is a contest ongoing.
Serwaa Amihere: it a yes or no question
Napo: it not a yes or no question, when there is a live contest
Serwaa Amihere: It certainly cannot be now, maybe in the next 12 years?
Napo: Have you seen my adopted logo?
Serwaa Amihere: No, I have not.
Napo: You have to learn to serve
Serwaa Amihere: I think you have answered my question. Meaning you want to lead, but you are learning to serve
Napo: If you don’t learn to serve, you can never be a chief
Serwaa Amihere: So you will become president, but you want to learn how to serve
Napo: If that is your wish, thank God.
Additionally, in a separate interview, Napo admitted that some of his own utterances leading to the 2024 election contributed to the party’s defeat.
According to Napo, his own gaffes contributed to the NPP’s defeat in the 2024 election.
Speaking in an interview with JOYNEWS when asked by Evans Mensah in his reflection what he thinks his role was that contributed to the NPP’s defeat, NAPO stated, “ the NAPO gaffes it been public, probably very well misunderstood, but I can tell one, and I can tell you two. I can admit three”.
Napo, during the interview, clarified certain statements he made leading up to the 2024 elections.
Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO) clarified that the “mo Kwame Nkrumah” remarks in the run-up to the 2024 elections were taken out of context and completely misunderstood.
He argued that the public outrage that followed his comment was interpreted as an attack on Ghana’s first President.
NAPO further highlighted his remark in comparison to a football banter to emphasise that arguing that he was not attacking Kwame Nkrumah.
Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh stated, “At that time, you can’t go into the evidence, so I made a statement ‘mo Kwame Nkrumah’, and I subsequently had to go to Nkroful and speak to the Chiefs there and explain the contest in which the statement was made,” he said.
“Because in politics, if somebody misunderstands, misquotes, or you allow your communication to be misread or to be misunderstood, you have to own it. So I owned it, and that is why I issued the statement,” he said.
He added, “Not that the context was wrong. I’m a die-hard fan of Kumasi Asante Kotoko. So if I’m teasing Olympic supporters and I said ‘mo Oly fuo no’, I’m not really insulting Olympic fans. I’m just upping Kotoko fuo because I am one of them”.
The former NPP running mate acknowledged, “It was totally misunderstood, and it generated a lot of uproar. Nkrumahists got furious, and I apologise to them,” he said. But he urged critics to reflect on Nkrumah’s own writings.
“They should go and read Kwame Nkrumah’s Last Days from Guinea and look at how he described his own Convention People’s Party (CPP). He said the CPP was dead. That’s Nkrumah’s own writing, so we don’t say these things out of lack of respect. You know me. I have friends everywhere,” he noted.
Watch the video below:
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh gives a cryptic reply to Serwaa Amihere's question on whether he wants to be President or not…
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