The party has lost ground - Paul Afoko breaks long silence to launch NPP comeback

Paul Afoko emerged from years of self-imposed exile on Thursday, 21 May 2026, delivering a brutal assessment of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) current structural health at a closed-door consultative meeting with the NPP Regional Executive Committee for Greater Accra. Mr. Afoko warned that internal complacency had severely weakened the party's electoral machinery, stating flatly, "You cannot sit back and say, oh, we are OK. We have lost a lot of ground, a lot of ground." He recalled the operational blueprint engineered during his tenure as National Chairman, arguing that the strategic systems built by his administration laid the groundwork that propelled the party into office.

Mr. Afoko explained that his withdrawal from the media glare was a calculated sacrifice to protect the internal cohesion of the party during its initial years in government. He recounted how his initial attempt to defend the newly elected NPP administration was met with fierce, hostile backlash, forcing him back into operational isolation. He said that when asked what the new government had achieved after 100 days, he responded, "I think you're asking too much of a new government... there is no single government that has come within 100 days and been able to get the whole government formed."

Mr. Afoko's engagement forms part of a strategic, nationwide tour aimed at consulting grassroots leaders and regional powerbrokers ahead of his anticipated full-scale return to frontline party politics.