The General Secretary of the United Party (UP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has ruled out any possibility of returning to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), insisting that the party has lost its moral compass and core values.
The NPP revoked the membership of Yaw Buaben Asamoa and three others after they publicly endorsed a presidential aspirant other than the party’s elected flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews‘ The Pulse on Thursday, October 16, the former NPP Communications Director said the once value-driven party has become arrogant and disconnected from the principles of humaneness, integrity, and service that once defined it.
“Everything they performed was overshadowed by the lack of humaneness. For me, that is the biggest problem that party has. It got too arrogant,” he said.
When asked if this was the reason he would not consider rejoining the NPP, Mr. Asamoa responded emphatically: “I don’t intend to go back to the NPP. They don’t have values. First of all, let’s examine the NPP — which NPP are we talking about now?”
He argued that the current state of the party no longer reflects its founding ideals, claiming that its leadership and internal culture have drifted far from the conservative, right-of-center tradition it once upheld.
“As far as I recollect, the roots of the NPP came from the CPP tradition for about eight years. The party was later managed by a chairman who had CPP roots but became NPP. The presidential candidate that took over has NDC antecedents, and his wife is from a PNC family with NDC connections,” he explained.
Mr. Asamoa said these ideological shifts have diluted the party’s identity and corrupted its traditional values of integrity, service, and sacrifice.
This comes at a time when Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen’s newly rebranded United Party (UP) has rejected suggestions that former members who broke away from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) could be granted amnesty to return to the party.
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