The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described the conduct and utterances of former Minister of Environment, Science and Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, as highly reprehensible and inimical to the values, unity and integrity of the party.
It has, consequently, invoked the relevant provisions of its Constitution to commence the necessary processes to expel him from the party, strictly in accordance with due process.
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A statement issued by the party in Accra yesterday and signed by its General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong, explained that the party had taken due notice of comments made by Professor Frimpong-Boateng during an interview on Channel One TV on Monday, January 12, 2026, in which he described the party as a “fake party” and further stated that he no longer considered himself a member of the NPP.
The party, the statement said, unequivocally rejects Professor Frimpong Boateng’s unfortunate characterisation of the NPP “and firmly denies his baseless and unsubstantiated allegations regarding the conduct of the 2023 Presidential Primary.”
It noted that the said primary had been widely acknowledged by all candidates who participated, as well as by well-meaning members of the party, as having been conducted in a free, fair, transparent, and credible manner, faithfully reflecting the will of party delegates.
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When contacted, Prof Frimpong-Boateng declined comments because he said he was yet to received any correspondence to that effect.
During his interview on Channel One TV’s The Point of View on Monday, January 12, Prof Frimpong-Boateng said, “The present NPP is not NPP.
It is fake. From what I see now, this is not the NPP I used to know.”
When asked whether he still considers himself a member of the NPP, the former minister said he does not associate himself with what he described as the current version of the party.
“Not the fake one.
The real one is there. It is a virtual thing.
The members are in the background,” he said.
“We lost the elections badly and we do not deal with the issues that led to the losses and we still want to go in there and I think it will be a trainwreck if they elect the old flagbearer,” he said.
“Look at how they elected their last flagbearer, twist people’s arms, bribing delegates and intimidating others to get a flagbearer.
This is a beginning of corruption.
This should not be allowed in any serious institution or any serious party,” he stated.
He linked those internal challenges to the party’s poor performance in the last general elections, noting that the NPP had failed to properly address the issues that led to its defeat.
