A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has taken a swipe at the leadership of the committee investigating the reasons behind the party’s loss in the 2024 general elections.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe expressed his concerns, questioning the moral standing of the party’s national executives in selecting and appointing former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye as the chairman of the committee.
According to him, Prof. Mike Oquaye, as he knows him, is not vocal or bold enough to speak his mind and express things as they truly are.
“The national executives have no moral right to form a committee and put Mike Oquaye as the chairman or whatever role he is playing there. I know Mike Oquaye very well and we all grew up in the party. He can never speak his mind because I know him and he knows what I’m saying is true,” he stated in an interview on JoyNews on March 23, 2025.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe stated that a crucial committee like this, tasked with investigating the reasons behind the party’s loss, requires individuals who are firm, bold, incorruptible, and free of ego, rather than those who may fail to offer an accurate representation of the issues at hand.
“You need somebody who is firm and strong to call a spade a spade if necessary. These are the type of people we want at the leadership of the party now, people who are not corrupt, have no complex,” he stated.
The politician criticised the current leadership of the party, accusing them of having egos, which he believes have contributed significantly to the party’s current position as the opposition and to the divisiveness within the party.
“People say they are arrogant but I don’t see that as arrogance. Arrogance is normally applied to the people who know where they come from and what they have behind them. These are a group of people who have enormous complex and try to massage their ego and that has ended us in the way that we are today,” he concluded.
Prof. Mike Oquaye can never speak his mind – Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe ‘rubbishes’ NPP election review committee
