Senior New Patriotic Party (NPP) figure Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe says he will not support any of the party’s presidential aspirants ahead of the January 31 primaries, arguing that the process being adopted by the party is fundamentally wrong.
Speaking in an interview with Desmond Okraku Danso on Metro TV’s Good Afternoon Ghana on Thursday, January 15, 2026, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said the NPP had failed to learn from its recent electoral defeat and was repeating mistakes that could weaken the party further.
“There’s nobody amongst them that I’m supporting,” he said. “Because they are doing the wrong thing.”
According to him, the party should have focused first on rebuilding from the grassroots after losing the last general election, instead of rushing into presidential primaries.
“After elections, we go down to the grassroots, prepare the people right at the grassroots. Then after that, we pick leadership for the grassroots and then we build it up,” he said. “But they are doing the other way round.”
He described the party’s defeat as “disgraceful” and insisted it required deep engagement with supporters at the base before selecting a national flagbearer.
“Particularly when we lose at the grassroots in such a disgraceful way,” he noted. “What we should have done was to start from the grassroots and climb up.”
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe linked his refusal to back any candidate to concerns about vote buying and inducement within the party’s internal elections.
He alleged that money had become a decisive factor in choosing party leaders, making it difficult for candidates without financial backing to compete fairly.
“If you don’t have money to buy the position, then you are nobody,” he said, adding that such practices distorted the will of party members.
He warned that leadership produced through inducement rather than genuine popularity risked hurting the party’s chances in future national elections.
“How can you pick a leader who is not really the wish of the people and make him a leader of the party?” he asked.
Despite his sharp criticism, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said the NPP could still recover in time for the 2028 general elections if it changed course.
“If leadership is genuinely picked, if that particular individual is popular amongst the grassroots and is picked, and not through intimidation and just vote buying, definitely we can stand the NDC,” he said.
He stressed that without such reforms, the party risked internal problems that could undermine its electoral fortunes.
“If we are not careful, the party definitely is being led into total destruction,” he warned.
