Napo urges NPP to reconnect with grassroots to rebuild its future
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, NAPO stated that the party must not rely on the strength built by previous generations but deliberately work to renew the tradition.
Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the 2024 NPP running mate, has urged the party's leadership to reconnect with grassroots to secure its future. In a Facebook post on August 18, 2026, Prempeh argued that the party's survival hinges on reviving its grassroots structures, cultivating new organizers, and embracing younger perspectives. "Every generation receives both an inheritance and an assignment," he declared, emphasizing the current NPP members' duty to build upon their predecessors' foundations.
He highlighted the Ashanti Region, traditionally a bastion of the NPP, to reconsider how it could bolster the party nationally. "Today, as Dr Mahamudu Bawumia leads our party into its next chapter, Ashanti Region must ask not only what it has contributed to the NPP, but what it is prepared to contribute to its future," Prempeh urged.
Dr Prempeh advocated for enhanced constituency structures, reinvigorated ties with grassroots, increased participation of young people, and the nurturing of a new cadre of party organizers. He cautioned against reducing the Ashanti Region's bond with the NPP to its electoral significance. "That is why I sometimes hesitate when Kumasi and Ashanti Region are described simply as the NPP's World Bank," he remarked.
"Our relationship with this tradition is older and deeper than votes." He recalled the Ashanti Region's historical contributions to the NPP, dating back to the National Liberation Movement (NLM) in the 1950s and the subsequent evolution through the United Party and Progress Party. The Ashanti Region's tradition, he explained, persisted because successive generations organized, sacrificed, and rebuilt.
"Those who gathered around the Subin organised. Those who built the United Party organised. Those who kept the tradition alive through difficult years organised. Those who founded the NPP built again," Prempeh stated. He concluded by urging the party's present generation to regard its political legacy as a duty, not a privilege.
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