NPP Leaders Are More Motivated By Money than Service – Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

The former Minister of Information and the Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has claimed that the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lost touch with its founding values.

Speaking during the ongoing NPP National Delegates Conference, being held at the University of Ghana Stadium on Saturday, July 19, 2025, the legislator said the party was founded on values of sacrifice and service but has become more about money and personal interest.

He said the National Delegates Conference provides a perfect opportunity for the NPP to reflect on its problems and how to solve them.

“We are expecting that over 5,000 delegates who are coming from across the country will use this as an opportunity to reflect on where we are, what has brought us here, and what we need to do to get out of it,” he said.

Oppong Nkrumah said certain people in the party might not want to hear the truth, but they need to be honest and face the reality about where their party has gotten to.

“This is a party that was built on selflessness, sacrifice, and service. The truth is that over the years, we’ve lost a lot of it. Somebody may not like to hear it, but as a truth, over the years, people have been more motivated by money and personal interest and other things. We want everybody to go back to our values of sacrifice, of selflessness, and of service,” he concluded.

Analysis of Kojo Oppong Nkrumah’s NPP dissection

The NPP has indeed lost its way as a party, but that’s even if we assume that they had any other values to begin with.

The sad reality is, over the years, Ghanaians have not particularly benefited from the rule of either major party.

They simply trade eight years in office, where the party in power comes in on a wave of goodwill, squanders it all on corrupt practices to enrich themselves, and then the other party comes in on the wave of goodwill, and the cycle just keeps repeating itself.

NPP will probably return to power once more, but it would be because the NDC squandered the chance that Ghanaians gave them and turned into what the NPP was for eight years under Akufo-Addo.

That’s the curse of being a Ghanaian stuck under two-party ‘democracy’.