We have heard enough of this NPP "Ownership Fallacy" 

Dr. Bawumia Did Not Meet a Vibrant Party; He Met a Dying Movement fronted by Greedy, Self-centred Ideologue Class.

Bryan Acheampong was a 20-year-old boy when NPP was officially launched as a political party.  Kennedy on the other hand was a 32 year old American taxi-driver  returnee.

Where does this hubris come from?

The topmost role any of us could play in party service in the early 1990s was "candidate's agent"

WHEN DID STRUGGLE BECOME A MONOPOLY?

What exactly do they mean by “he hasn’t suffered for the party”?

Political struggle is not one static chapter - it evolves with time. Each era brings its own battles, its own sacrifices, and its own kind of pain.

Dr. Bawumia didn’t come to meet the NPP flowing with milk and honey. He was brought on board as a credible outsider to rescue a sinking party - one pushed to the brink by the greed, arrogance, and entitlement of some so-called “old guards” - the same Alan, Kennedy, and their camp of political shareholders who nearly buried the NPP before 2008.

Bawumia’s struggle began the moment he stepped into the fire.

He was ridiculed, branded a stranger, mocked for his accent, and dismissed as “a technocrat with no roots.” Yet he stood firm, selling the NPP vision across villages, hamlets, and regions that others had ignored.

He fought his battle not with slogans but with intellect - through the Supreme Court petition, where his analytical brilliance gave the party a lifeline. Through the Economic Lectures, where he redefined Ghana’s policy discourse. And through eight long years in opposition, where he carried the NPP’s message across every corner of the country, especially the North, planting hope where cynicism once lived.

That is not comfort. That is struggle - the kind that doesn’t break chairs in party offices, but builds credibility for national power.

Dr. Bawumia didn’t inherit success - he earned his place through relevance, competence, and loyalty.

He didn’t destroy the party to rise; he revived it when others were busy cashing in on their “old struggle” dividends.

The truth is simple:

Every generation fights its own version of the NPP struggle.

Bawumia’s battlefield was the modern Ghana - the economy, the data, the message - and he conquered it with class.

So let no one lecture us about who “suffered.”

Some suffered to build the party’s name.

Bawumia suffered to keep it alive. 

J. A. Sarbah

Powered by Froala Editor