MATTHEW Opoku Prempeh, the 2024 running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is confident the party will recapture political power in 2028, and return the country back to the path of prosperity.
Without mincing words, he stated emphatically that all the five NPP presidential aspirants are competent and far better than anyone that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will present as their flagbearer for the crucial election.
Dr. Prempeh, nicknamed as ‘Napo’, described the NPP’s shocking electoral defeat in 2024 as just a temporary setback, stating categorically that the party learnt its lessons, and would therefore bounce back stronger in 2028.
According to Napo, he would willingly, wholeheartedly and actively campaign for any of the five candidates that the electorates would eventually settle on as NPP flagbearer on January 31, 2026, urging other party members to do so.
“Any of the five NPP presidential candidates is much better than what the NDC can ever offer Ghana. So I’m much prepared to work for any candidate that will be elected as the NPP flagbearer,” he stressed.
Napo was speaking during the NPP Manchester Youth Wing Conference in the United Kingdom (UK), which was under theme “A formidable youth wing, ready for power”. The event was graced by NPP members in the UK and beyond.
Touching on the outcome of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, he said, “Defeat is nothing but a lesson. How you learn the lesson and how you practice, will determine whether you will win or fail in your next match.”
According to him, the NPP has realised its shortfalls, which denied the party victory in 2024, promising that with unity and oneness, the NPP can strategise and campaign effectively to wrest political power from the ruling NDC.
“The 2024 lessons have been learnt, it’s painful. Defeat cannot break our backbone. Don’t let the 2024 defeat paralyze you,” Napo advised his party members, stating emphatically that the NPP would surely win power in 2028.
According to Napo, what the NPP needs most in order to win the next elections is total unity, “and that’s why I started a unity campaign immediately we lost the 2024 elections, because I know that with unity, we can recapture power.”
He pointed out that some aggrieved NPP members decided not to cast their ballots in 2024, and that helped the NDC to win power, saying that the “NDC didn’t win the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, NPP lost the polls.”
Napo stated that the youth have a major and crucial role to play to help the NPP to realise its ambitions of recapturing political power in 2028, urging the NPP youth to make themselves available and work assiduously for the party.
“Coordinate your TESCON activities because a vibrant TESCON will make our work easier,” he admonished. “Don’t get yourself in unnecessary camps, your camp is NPP camp so don’t let anybody buy your conscience,” he advised.
Napo also urged the NPP youth to defend and promote the party on social media platforms, saying, “The youth wing should be active on social media. One of the core duties of the youth is to fight for the party but not individuals.”
Source: Dailyguidenetwork
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