By: Baba Mohammed Issahaq
Former Tamale Mayor, Mr Musah Superior, has launched a scathing attack on the party’s national leadership, blaming them for the party’s narrow loss in a recent parliamentary rerun in Ablekuma North and accusing them of incompetence and poor judgment.
In a statement shared on social media, Mr Musah Superior criticised the party’s National Executive Council (NEC), decision to boycott the Ablekuma North rerun elections, describing it as unilateral, ill-informed, and disconnected from the grassroots.
“We will not participate in any re-run,” Musah quoted NEC as declaring a move he believes significantly contributed to the NPP’s candidate’s defeat. He claims the decision was made without consulting the party’s parliamentary candidate, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, or the electoral and polling station party leadership.
“Neither the Parliamentary Candidate nor the leadership of the local party was consulted before the ill-fated decision to boycott the rerun was announced,” he wrote.
According to Mr Musah, the boycott call was openly defied by the PC, Nana Akua, who declared at a rally that “we neither sleep nor slumber,” dismissing the NEC directive. He added that most supporters, including MPs and senior party members, rejected the boycott idea altogether.
“While we lost narrowly, a full boycott would have been catastrophic,” MR Musah Superior stated, warning that internal miscommunication and lack of planning ultimately led to a disorganised and poorly executed campaign effort.
He accused the party’s national executives of abandoning the campaign in its critical final days. “We went into the rerun completely unprepared because Justin Kodua and his inept bunch of National Executives chickened out,” he charged.
Mr Musah painted a grim picture of what he called an unserious and uninspired leadership, claiming the party’s national officers only made superficial appearances during the campaign and failed to mobilise effectively.
“It was an orchestrated deception… to cover up their weakness, inconsistency, incompetence, and lousiness,” he said.
Calling for a complete overhaul of the party’s leadership, Mr Musah didn’t mince words: “These National Officers must be wiped out. We need stronger, more focused, non-lily-livered, and strategically minded individuals to take over the leadership and management of the Party.”
He warned that if the current leadership does not step down voluntarily, party members will ensure their removal in a manner “never seen before.”
