The President and founder of Citizen Eye Ghana (CITEG), Mr. Alex Tetteh has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) leadership of showing bias in favour of former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia following the party’s press release on the Thank You Tour.
In a letter dated April 22 and addressed to NPP National Chairman Stephen Ntim, as sighted by GhanaWeb, CITEG claimed the party was compromising its neutrality by using official party platforms, branding, and resources to promote Dr Bawumia, despite the party not yet having an official presidential candidate.
“The NPP currently has no presidential candidate. Yet, through the packaging of this tour, the party appears to be unofficially crowning Bawumia as its chosen flagbearer.”
CITEG raised concerns over the structure of the ongoing “Thank You” tour, arguing that it disproportionately centres on Dr Bawumia while sidelining other contenders from the 2024 race, such as Kennedy Agyapong and Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto.
“The use of the party’s letterhead, platforms, and organisational structure to amplify one aspirant’s visibility is inappropriate, unfair, and fundamentally undemocratic,” the letter stated.
The group warned that such actions risk fracturing party unity and undermining the integrity of the NPP’s internal democratic process ahead of the 2028 elections.
The petition was copied to former Presidents Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and John Agyekum Kufuor, members of the NPP Council of Elders, and notable aspirants from the party’s previous presidential primary.
CITEG concluded by urging the party’s leadership to serve as “neutral referees” rather than participants in the flagbearer selection process, warning that any perception of bias “will be rejected by the people.”
