A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former Presidential staffer, Samuel Bryan Buabeng, has attributed the ruling party’s internal challenges and public dissatisfaction to greed and selfishness among some young appointees who served under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration.
In a strongly worded social media post, Buabeng lamented that despite President Akufo-Addo’s deliberate efforts to empower the youth and loyal social media activists of the party, many of those who benefited failed to uplift others or demonstrate humility in service.
“The real problem is that too many of those who benefited failed to treat people well, and others became unbearably greedy, behaving as if the future belonged to them alone,” Buabeng wrote. “Some even engineered attacks against the very government that gave them opportunities.”
He explained that the President went out of his way to create positions in ministries and state institutions to accommodate NPP youth, even where deputy or director roles did not previously exist. According to him, this was part of a broader effort to reward loyalty and promote youthful participation in governance.
Citing examples, he mentioned a long list of young appointees, including Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, Fatimatu Abubakar, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, Salam Mustapha, Yaw Preko, Gideon Boako, Francis Asenso-Boakye, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Samuel A. Jinapor, and others — all of whom, he said, were products of President Akufo-Addo’s commitment to youth empowerment.
Buabeng also dismissed what he described as a “false narrative” that the Akufo-Addo government neglected NPP’s online activists, calling such claims “a big, fat lie.”
He cited Kow Essuman, who rose from being the President’s Legal Counsel to the Secretary to the President, as an example of how far NPP youth could progress under Akufo-Addo’s leadership.
The former Jubilee House aide, however, said the NPP now needed introspection and reconciliation rather than constant blame and bitterness.
“We may all have legitimate grievances, but it is pointless to keep crying over spilt milk. What matters now is unity, discipline, and hard work,” he urged.
Buabeng called on the party’s communicators and grassroots activists to put aside internal differences and rally behind the party’s vision ahead of the 2028 general elections.
“Power is not won through bitterness and perpetual lamentations,” he concluded. “It is won through focus.”
