Former Energy Minister and New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Chairmanship aspirant, Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko, has emerged from a 16-region campaign tour with a central message to the party: Rebuild the electoral machine, Reclaim its lost parliamentary seats and lay the foundation for a Return to power in 2028.
He says the NPP’s route back to political relevance will depend largely on its ability to reorganise its grassroots structures and reverse the heavy parliamentary losses suffered in the 2024 general elections.
Agyarko, who ended the first phase of his nationwide tour in the Greater Accra Region, says his immediate political priority is to strengthen the party at the constituency level and restore its parliamentary fortunes, as part of a broader strategy to position the NPP for victory in the 2028 presidential election.
The former banker and economist has placed particular emphasis on the NPP’s parliamentary losses, arguing that the party cannot regain political dominance without rebuilding its presence in Parliament.
The NPP suffered significant setbacks in the 2024 elections, losing dozens of constituencies across the country to the NDC.
The losses cut across the party’s traditional strongholds, including parts of Ashanti, Bono, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra and Western regions, as well as constituencies in the Northern and Volta belts.
Among the constituencies lost were Ablekuma North, Ablekuma West, Okaikwei South, Ayawaso Central, Ayawaso West, Dome-Kwabenya, Bortianor-Ngleshie-Amanfrom, Amasaman and Tema West in Greater Accra.
Agyarko has consequently made the recovery of the party’s lost parliamentary seats a central plank of his campaign, promising to mobilise the party’s grassroots and put in place the organisational structures required to compete effectively in the next elections.
Greater Accra: The presidential battleground
In Greater Accra, Agyarko sought to demonstrate that his campaign is built around an understanding of the country’s political geography rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
He argued that the NPP’s fortunes in the capital would be decisive to its prospects of returning to power in 2028, given Greater Accra’s population, electoral weight and increasingly competitive political landscape.
According to him, the party must abandon a generic campaign approach and recognise constituencies within the region, which have different demographic profiles, political histories and electoral challenges.
Each constituency, he said, therefore, requires a strategy designed around its peculiar circumstances.
Welfare of party officers
Agyarko has also made the welfare and capacity of party officers a major component of his proposed leadership agenda.
He says a future NPP administration at the party-organisational level under his leadership would prioritise the training and empowerment of constituency and other party officers while providing them with the logistics and operational resources necessary to work effectively.
Resources, he said, must be distributed according to the needs of individual constituencies and, crucially, made available on time.
For Agyarko, delayed resources can undermine electoral opportunities, making the timing of party support as important as the amount of support provided.
“Winning Greater Accra requires more than slogans,” is the thrust of his argument: the party needs local knowledge, competent officers, timely logistical support and constituency-specific strategies.
A long road back
The scale of the NPP’s parliamentary losses means that any attempt to rebuild the party will require more than changes at the national level.
The party lost constituencies in Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, North East, Northern, Savannah, Upper West, Volta and Western regions, including several seats that had traditionally been regarded as part of its electoral base.
The challenge has, therefore, placed renewed attention on the effectiveness of the party’s grassroots structures and the capacity of its national leadership to reconnect with voters ahead of 2028.
Agyarko’s 16-region tour appears designed to place him directly before those structures as he makes his case for the National Chairmanship.
He has expressed appreciation to regional and constituency executives for what he described as the warm reception and endorsements received during the tour.
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