Reply to Dr. Amoako Baah: Unity, Not Division, Will Secure Ghana’s Future – Baffour Asare Yamoah Hits Back
Dr. Richard Amoako Baah’s recent call for disillusioned NPP members to abandon the party and join his newly-formed New Patriotic Front (NPF) is not only unfortunate but also misguided and deeply disappointing. While criticism can be healthy in any political organization, actively encouraging fragmentation and disunity is a disservice to the millions of Ghanaians who still believe in the vision and principles of the New Patriotic Party.
Let us ask the fundamental question: What is the point of leaving the NPP if those who leave carry along with them the very same attitudes and behaviors they claim are destroying the party? If the issue is with individual conduct and not ideology, then forming a new party does nothing but replicate the same problems in a different name.
Dr. Amoako Baah’s posture suggests not a genuine desire to fix the challenges within but rather a bitter attempt to pull down a party that has nurtured him and given him a platform for many years. Is this truly about reform, or is it a desperate bid for personal relevance after years on the sidelines? It is difficult to ignore the impression that this move is more about ego than principle.
History teaches us a valuable lesson: when the NDC was engulfed in internal wrangling, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings broke away to form the National Democratic Party. Did that collapse the NDC? Absolutely not. Instead, it weakened the broader opposition to the ruling party at the time and only hurt those who were genuinely seeking progress.
The NPP is not perfect. No political party is. But the solution is not to break away and start over each time there is internal disagreement. The solution is to stay, reform, debate, contest, and contribute. The energy some are investing in building new parties would be better channeled into strengthening the foundation of the NPP and ensuring it remains a united, people-centered political force.
Now more than ever, Ghana needs a focused, forward-looking party with a track record of competent leadership and bold policies and that party is the New Patriotic Party. Let us bury our differences, reinvigorate our base, and work together to win back the confidence of the Ghanaian people. Disunity is not a strategy. Bitterness is not a vision. And personal vendettas cannot build a nation.
Baffour Asare Yamoah
Former MP Aspirant of Bosome freho
