NPP After Defeat: Still Fighting Shadows While the House Burns

After a gargantuan electoral defeat — the kind that should spark deep soul-searching and a humble return to the drawing board — the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has chosen “vawulence” at least amongst their supporters on social media. Not metaphorical introspection or a quiet season of rebuilding, but actual, full-blown internal chaos. It’s as if the party saw the electoral hammer, shrugged, and said, “Great, now let’s destroy ourselves from the inside too.”

In most functioning democracies, a defeat like the one the NPP suffered would prompt hard questions: What did we get wrong? How did we lose the trust of the people? What must we change going forward? But not the NPP.

Barely four months after being unceremoniously escorted from the corridors of power, the party is back to unusual old habits: factions, insults, power plays, and a flagbearer race that already feels like a badly written ‘Kumawood’ movie script. No honest reflection. No policy reviews. Just vibes — and vicious infighting.

And let’s be honest: this isn’t new. Historically, the NPP has treated internal competition like a blood sport. The minute the flagbearer race opens, friendships dissolve, alliances shatter, and suddenly everyone’s WhatsApp messages are being leaked with more mischievous urgency than inflation data. By the time a candidate finally crawls out of the mud-slinging battlefield, the real opponent — the NDC — is sipping tea, suitably rested and refreshed, united and ready for war.

Say what you will about the NDC — and there’s a lot to say — but when it’s time to choose a leader, they tighten up. Disagreements? Sure. Tensions? Of course. But in the end, the party rallies behind whoever emerges, whether it’s with joy or just quiet resignation. The NDC understands something the NPP still doesn’t: Ghanaians don’t reward divided houses. They punish them.

And now, the NPP has gone from bruised to broken. Instead of assessing its glaring disconnect from voters, it’s busy debating which flagbearer is “less problematic” — as though that’s the new campaign strategy. At a time when well needed bridges must be built, supporters are trading accusations online like it’s a Facebook raffle. Sexual allegations here, anonymous tapes there, and a healthy dose of backstabbing to season the pot. It would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic.

And through all this — a very loud silence. Where are the elders? Where are the voices of reason? Where is the leadership that’s supposed to call time-out before the party collapses under the weight of its own egos?

We keep hearing that the NPP is a “tradition,” a proud legacy. But traditions that refuse to evolve die. And this one is on life support, not because of external enemies, but because the internal gatekeepers are asleep — or worse, complicit.

The NPP doesn’t just risk losing another election. At this rate, it risks becoming a political relic — one we’ll remember fondly but not miss, like good old Nokia Windows phones. Political parties are not immune to irrelevance, especially when they lose the very thing that keeps them alive: discipline, vision, and a unified purpose.

So here’s some unsolicited advice — the best kind in Ghanaian politics: if the NPP still wants to be taken seriously, it must fix itself before it fixes a candidate. Because if this is what renewal looks like, then God help us all when campaign season actually begins.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com