"He is an outsider" - the mental cancer their degrees cannot cure in NPP.

It is this same disease that now fuels the most dangerous threat to the New Patriotic Party - not from the NDC, but from enemies within its own ranks who would rather burn the house down than see it occupied by someone they label an "outsider."

Note this: the ethnic attacks on Dr. Bawumia are not designed to destroy him personally, but to systematically deflate the NPP's electoral numbers across crucial voting blocs - the North, the Zongos, and among all Ghanaians who reject tribal politics.

The recent vile comment by Asante Boateng - a known Kennedy Agyapong loyalist, describing Dr. Bawumia as a "slave" - is not a political gaffe. It is a calculated bullet in a sophisticated war of destruction. Having been defeated once in the flagbearer race, Kennedy Agyapong has pivoted to a more sinister goal for the 2026 primaries: if he cannot lead the NPP, he will ensure the party becomes so divided along ethnic and sectarian lines that it becomes unelectable in 2028 and beyond - just to make a statement of his ego-driven indispensability

This destructive agenda finds its perfect partner in Alan Kyerematen's parallel assault. By rebranding his Movement for Change into the "UP" party at the peak of NPP primaries, Alan created a dedicated media platform for a special purpose external attacks on the NPP. 

Do not be deceived; even though Alan may have left the NPP, he has not moved on. His  spirit and eyes are still fixed on his mother party - not the UP.

Call it Movement for Change, or United Party Plus, they are just decoy - to keep his voice in the political landscape.

Tune in to any radio station hosting UP spokespersons, and you'll hear the same toxic refrain recycled endlessly: "He is an outsider," "He was NDC," while vile xenophobic whispers about his wife Samira's heritage complete the chorus.

Instead of articulating their own vision, Alan and his surrogates have made Bawumia's demonization their core business model. The strategy is brutally effective: poison the well. While Kennedy's loyalists attack from within party ranks, Alan's UP operatives echo identical talking points from external platforms. This coordinated pincer movement achieves their shared goal: to render Bawumia unacceptable and the NPP unelectable.

But make no mistake: they are not merely attacking Bawumia; they are weaponizing tribal sentiment to rewrite the NPP's identity from a national movement into a narrow ethnic estate. They systematically tell every non-Akan, every Muslim, every northerner, and every Ghanaian who believes in merit over tribe that they are second-class citizens in the NPP. The message is direct: You can serve, but you cannot lead. You are labor, not family.

Consider the devastating question they're forcing millions to confront: Why would anyone from minority tribes or northern regions support a party whose prominent voices publicly denigrate them as "slaves" and "outsiders"?

The answer is without ambiguity: they won't. And that's precisely their design.

Kennedy and Alan are not waging an ideological war; they are amputating the NPP's national soul. Their shared mission is not victory - it is vengeance. They are strategically ensuring catastrophic defeat in 2028 by alienating the base in the North, the Zongos, and among all Ghanaians weary of tribal politics. They have decided that if the NPP cannot be their personal property, it must be reduced to ashes.

The NPP leadership must recognize this for what it is: an existential threat. Silence is complicity. Weak "disassociations" statements without decisive action against this bigotry constitute endorsement of the party's demise. This malignancy must be excised - not with press releases, but with the full force of the party's disciplinary machinery. The NPP must not merely disassociate; it must expel the architects of this division and publicly sanction any official who echoes their toxic, tribal rhetoric.

This is the line that must be drawn in the sand.

The NPP stands at a historic crossroads: it can become a modern, inclusive party capable of governing a diverse nation, or it will perish as a tribal redoubt - undone not by its enemies, but by its own bigotry.

 J. A. Sarbah

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