OPK and Patrick Boamah: Why these two NPP MPs are championing release of Oquaye Report

As portion of the process to reorganize, pursuing the 2024 statesmanlike and parliamentary elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituted a 12-member committee, led by Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye.

Tasked with investigating the reasons down the NPP’s decision successful the 2024 wide elections, wherever the enactment mislaid the presidency to the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s John Dramani Mahama and saw a important simplification successful parliamentary seats, losing its majority, the committee, aft weeks of combing the country, speaking with enactment members, electors, and different stakeholders, presented a study connected its findings and recommendations to the enactment of the NPP connected April 16, 2025.

Amidst immoderate shared details from the afloat contents of the report, determination is simply a increasing run for the enactment of the NPP to marque the study disposable to galore much people.

Persons calling for the merchandise of the Oquaye Report see immoderate starring members of the party, arsenic good arsenic governmental analysts.

Two Members of Parliament of the NPP person truthful acold joined the calls for the merchandise of the study by advancing arguments connected the request for transparency, enactment unity, and strategical considerations.

Davis Opoku Ansah

Following the submission of the Oquaye Report to the enactment of the NPP, the party, arsenic portion of recommendations contained, constituted a committee to oversee an overhaul of the party’s constitution.

This led to an unfastened invitation being extended to members of the NPP to taxable proposals for inputs to beryllium made successful the imaginable amendments to the constitution.

However, the Member of Parliament for Mpraeso Constituency, Davis Opoku Ansah (OPK), has described the refusal of the enactment to merchandise the report, portion asking for proposals, arsenic a blatant disregard for its members.

According to the MP, the attack by the enactment enactment is simply a nonaccomplishment to woody with the halfway issues emanating from the party’s defeat.

“Proposals based connected what data? On what facts? On what diagnosis?” helium questioned successful a Facebook post.

He added that; “Surprisingly, the aforesaid party, of which we are each integral members, charged a committee to analyse the reasons down our electoral defeat. When the committee visited the Mpraeso Constituency, I rushed down to conscionable with them and instantly returned to Parliament to fulfill my duties. That is however earnestly I took the exercise. Now that the committee has completed its work, not adjacent a communiqué has been issued to stock the enforcement summary of its findings. Instead, we are being invited to taxable proposals for law amendments. Proposals based connected what data? On what facts? On what diagnosis?

“The nationalist enactment indispensable instrumentality its members seriously. This is not however you retrieve from a humiliating defeat. We cannot unreal to hole the operation without archetypal acknowledging what broke it. If we neglect to unfastened up the sore and property it properly, it volition not heal. Let america get it right."

Patrick Boamah Bemoans Lack of Transparency

The Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has go the latest fig successful the NPP to adhd his dependable to the increasing calls for the merchandise of the Oquaye Report.

Speaking successful a caller interrogation connected Asaase Radio, helium expressed his vexation implicit the deficiency of transparency surrounding the findings of the report, which is deemed a blueprint for the reorganisation of the party.

According to the MP, it remains important that cardinal figures of the party, specified arsenic Members of Parliament, are fixed the payment of knowing the details of the Oquaye Report.

“We should person astatine slightest been called to conscionable and beryllium told what went wrong.

“If we cognize the mistakes, we tin hole them, but arsenic things stand, we are successful the dark. I americium not saying we should marque it public, but I deliberation it’s clip for the enactment to stock this study with america and let america to marque the indispensable changes,” helium stated.

Party’s Position connected Release of Oquaye Report

The NPP has taken a beardown presumption against the merchandise of the Oquaye Report, with a erstwhile National Chairman of the party, Freddie Blay, describing the papers arsenic a “trade secret.”

Some nationalist leaders of the party, including the General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua; and the Communications Director, Richard Ahiagbah; person denied reports of a imaginable leak, noting that the study remains nether strict security, arsenic the afloat papers volition stay confidential for strategical reasons.

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