Some veteran foot soldiers of the New Patriotic Party have launched a blistering attack on the party’s leadership, accusing them of undermining the party’s credibility by promoting bereaved spouses as parliamentary replacements. Cloaked in anonymity but clear in conviction, the insiders—calling themselves “diehard NPP members”—denounced the practice as not only politically reckless, but morally fraught.
“My late friend Ernest Kumi gave everything to the party,” the insider said. “I don’t support his wife running for that seat—not because she’s incapable, but because the party’s principle is broken.”
The critique draws blood from a deeper wound. Pointing to the Ayawaso West Wuogon election, they said the precedent had already backfired. “That seat was lost because of this widow baloney. She couldn’t hold it.” For them, the politics of sympathy is a failed strategy wrapped in sentimentality.
But the insider didn’t stop at failure—they called it dangerous. “Are we creating an incentive for people to harm their partners in order to succeed them?” The question landed like a slap, blunt and unsettling. It’s not merely about bad optics, they argued—it’s a slippery slope with potential for exploitation.
Slamming what they called the party’s “lazy approach” to elections, the member demanded a shift: “We need strategy, not shortcuts. We need candidates who earn their place, not inherit it like family heirlooms.”
And then, the final blow: “To the partners who jump on posters with smiles to replace your deceased ones—where lies your conscience?”
Source : Fuvi Kloku
