If you don’t go to the grassroots and start from the top, you will fail – Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe blasts NPP’s

Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party, has criticised the party’s current leadership, warning that its reversed approach to internal reorganisation is a sure path to failure.

Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Friday, January 23, 2026, the veteran politician argued that the party has abandoned the organisational principles set by its founders.

His comments come as the NPP deals with the fallout from its 2024 election defeat and prepares for its presidential primary.

Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe said that after losing power following an eight-year tenure, a party’s first priority must be to reconnect with its grassroots.

He outlined a systematic “bottom-up” model—from polling station to constituency to regional levels—as the proper way to rebuild.

“The correct approach is to explain the party’s defeat to members at the grassroots level and organise them from the polling station level upwards through the constituency and regional levels before reaching the national level,” he explained. “As you go along doing this, you elect the leadership. This is how we were taught by the founders of the party.”

He criticised the current administration’s strategy, describing it as a superficial attempt to fix the party from the top down.

“If you don’t go to the grassroots and start from the top, you will fail. That is what I am saying,” he warned, predicting that the ongoing restructuring would collapse without local trust.

His remarks come just ahead of the January 31, 2026, presidential primary.

On Thursday, January 22, the five cleared aspirants signed a symbolic peace pact in Accra, committing to a non-violent and unified campaign.

Despite calls for unity, internal data points to a lopsided race. The latest Global Info Analytics poll shows Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the favourite to lead the party into the 2028 elections.

The primary will test whether the NPP can unify behind a “top-down” choice or if neglect of the grassroots will lead to the failure Nyaho-Tamakloe has predicted for 2028…CONTINUE MORE READING>>>