Prior to the 2024 general elections, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s members to maintain their unity.

Additionally, he urged the party to select a flagbearer candidate who can defeat John Dramani Mahama, the NDC’s presidential candidate.

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, Mr. Akufo-Addo spoke these words to New Patriotic Party representatives who visited him at Jubilee House, the location of the country’s president.

President Akufo-Addo indicated that the Party cannot afford to let what happened to it in 2008 to happen again in response to an appeal from the NPP Director of Communications, Mr. Richard Ahiagbah, over the Party’s conduct in the election that will take place the following year.
We are all witnesses to the derailing of the achievements chalked by President John Agyekum Kufuor by the successor NDC Government, from 2009 to 2017, in which John Dramani Mahama featured so prominently,” the President noted.

According to him “under 8-years of the successor NDC Government, we became famous for all the wrong reasons. Four successive years of dumsor, the mismanagement of the economy, wrong and dangerous energy contracts, and wanton corruption dissipated any hope the Ghanaian had for sustained economic development. Never again should we allow this to happen.”

With the start of the final leg of internal contests of the NPP, President Akufo-Addo noted that some actions by a few members of the party are making the front pages for the wrong reasons.

With the the final leg of internal contests of the NPP to take off, President Akufo-Addo stated  that some actions by some aspirants of the are making  headlines for the wrong reasons.

“We are expending some of our energies hurling invectives at each other, instead of at our opponents, and, in the process, taking digs at our own Government. It has been an anxious time for all who love our party, and who see us as the party that can bring progress and prosperity to our nation,” he said.