Gen Zs Abandon NPP’s Registration Process, as Greys Queue
By Gifty Boateng
A concerted push by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to expand its membership base has instead laid bare a deepening demographic crisis, with the party’s grassroots registration exercise being overwhelmingly patronised by elderly supporters while the youth long considered the future of any political organization remain conspicuously absent.
The ongoing exercise, which opened on March 1 and runs until March 31, was intended to update membership records, promote transparency, and build an inclusive base ahead of future electoral contests.
But party insiders and independent observers are now sounding the alarm over what they describe as a structural disconnect between the NPP’s leadership and the younger generation.
A concerned party sympathiser, who has been monitoring registration centres across the country, took to TikTok with a stark warning. Adom Best, whose video has circulated widely within party circles, claimed that visits to multiple polling stations revealed a consistent pattern: elderly citizens turning out to formalise their membership, while young people stayed away.
“This on-going registration exercise why are the youth not registering?” he asked in the video. “Go to the various polling stations and ask it is the old people that are registering to be NPP.
The youth are not registering, and it is not that the communication hasn’t gone down well. It has. It is the current crop of leaders they are not making the party attractive to the youth.”
He went further, explicitly calling for the removal of the current national executives. “This crop of leaders must all go. Let’s change these crop of leaders and bring new leaders. The youth are not registering either you take it, do something about it, or we perish.”
The anecdotal concerns are reinforced by hard data. The latest face-to-face tracking poll conducted in March 2026 by Global InfoAnalytics shows that only 25 percent of voters now openly associate with the NPP, compared to 46 percent for the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The figures mark a dramatic reversal from the period preceding the 2024 general elections, when the NPP held 37 percent affiliation and the NDC stood at 33 percent.
Executive Director Mussa Dankwa, releasing the findings, noted that the situation is even more pronounced in the swing regions of Greater Accra, Central, and Western, where only 22 percent of respondents identify with the NPP against 58 percent for the NDC.
The polling firm’s data suggests a widening gap between the two dominant political parties, raising fundamental questions about the NPP’s ability to replenish its base ahead of future electoral contests.
Evidence of the party’s struggle to attract new members has emerged even in its traditional strongholds. In the Ashanti Region, constituency executives have been filmed moving from household to household, displaying party paraphernalia and imploring residents to register.
In one video obtained by The New Republic, a man recording the scene is heard shouting: “NPP is now moving from one house to the other, begging people to register.”
The imagery stands in sharp contrast to the party’s historical reputation as a self-mobilising political machine, particularly in its heartland.
National Organiser Henry Nana Boakye has maintained that the exercise is progressing well, disclosing that over 200,000 individuals have come forward to register since the exercise began. But party insiders acknowledge that the figure masks the demographic imbalance that threatens to leave the party increasingly reliant on an ageing base.
The communique issued on February 26 by Dr Palgrave Boakye Danquah, which outlined the exercise’s objectives, spoke of targeting “both longstanding supporters and new sympathisers who share the party’s values.” Yet the execution appears to have exposed deeper fissures within the party’s appeal.
Political analysts note that the NDC has long cultivated a reputation for identifying and elevating young leaders, creating a pipeline that the NPP has struggled to replicate. The current registration drive, intended as a routine administrative exercise, has instead become a referendum on generational inclusion.
For the NPP leadership, the confluence of anecdotal evidence from its own grassroots and polling data from independent analysts presents an uncomfortable picture. With the registration exercise set to close on March 31, the party faces a stark choice: treat the youth disengagement as a communications failure, or confront the structural criticisms levelled by its own supporters.
As one local political observer put it: “When your own loyalists are taking to TikTok to warn that the party will ‘perish’ if leaders do not change, it is no longer a fringe concern. It is a signal.”