Medical practitioner and NPP stalwart Dr. Arthur Kennedy has demanded that the party’s disciplinary machinery target former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo if it truly intends to restore its shattered credibility.
Speaking on Channel One TV on Saturday, January 17, 2026, the US-based physician and former NPP presidential aspirant argued that the party is still “paying the price” for a culture of vendetta that has historically protected the powerful while punishing perceived internal rivals.
Dr. Kennedy revisited one of the darkest chapters in the NPP’s history—the 2015 indefinite suspension of former National Chairman Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyapong.
He described their removal as a manufactured political execution designed to consolidate power rather than enforce order.
“Those filings were not done with due process; they were cooked and manufactured. Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong had done nothing wrong. Their expulsions were vindictive and non-principled, and that is the price we are still paying,” Dr. Kennedy stated.
The fallout from that era, he argues, has left a permanent stain on the party’s democratic credentials, establishing a precedent where loyalty to a specific leader—rather than the party’s constitution—became the yardstick for “discipline”.
The core of Dr. Kennedy’s argument is that for discipline to be effective, it must be blind to status.
He challenged the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to move beyond selective accountability and examine the failures of the Akufo-Addo presidency, which spanned 2017 to 2025.
“If we are going to discipline people, then we should discipline people left, right and centre. I want to suggest that if we are in the mood to discipline, then by now we should be calling Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the carpet for the government he led,” he urged.
He cited three specific pillars of failure that he believes warrant internal investigation:
- Government Arrogance: A perceived disconnect between the executive and the suffering of ordinary Ghanaians.
- Entrenched Corruption: The failure to effectively tackle high-profile scandals that dogged the administration’s eight-year tenure.
- Absence of Reshuffles: The former President’s refusal to change underperforming ministers, a decision Kennedy says fostered a “culture of impunity.”
Following the NPP’s recent general amnesty offered to suspended members in August 2025, Dr. Kennedy has remained a vocal figure.
He previously described the move as “hypocritical”, arguing that an amnesty without a sincere apology to those who were “unfairly removed” is merely a political gimmick.
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