Stop the Blame Game, Let's Regroup - Fatima Abubakar tells NPP Leadership
Accra, Ghana - 25 Jan, 2025 - Fatimatu Abubakar, Ghana's former Minister for Information, has cautioned members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) against publicly blaming each other for the party's defeat in the December 2024 general elections.
In an interview with Asempa FM on Friday, Madam Abubakar expressed concern over the public recriminations that have followed the party's loss, saying they can only serve to create mistrust and disunity.
The former minister, who previously served as Deputy Communications Director at the Office of the President, Jubilee House, Accra, Ghana, urged party members to channel their concerns through internal mechanisms rather than the media.
Madam Abubakar also welcomed the NPP's National Council decision to set up a fact-finding committee, chaired by former Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, to investigate the reasons for the party's electoral loss.
She called on all members to support this initiative and work together to regroup and recapture power in the shortest possible time.
Madam Abubakar stressed that the party's strength lies in unity.
“What is unacceptable and, indeed, bad for the necessary efforts to regroup is to hear or read senior members of the Party, including active members of the 2024 campaign team, pointing fingers cautionlessly.
“If you truly love the NPP, you will cover it when you believe it is naked. You will fix it when you think it is broken, and you will lift it up when you see it down,” she remarked.
“Throwing accusations freely in public can only serve one negative purpose: build mistrust and disunity. What if those accused also decide to respond? They also have strong followings in the Party and beyond. But where will that take us?” she questioned.
“We must all focus on reflection, regrouping, and recapturing power in the shortest possible time. But how we go about it matters greatly,” she said.
“If you jump from radio station to radio station, TV to TV, social media to social media, to discuss all that you perceive to be wrong with our Party and play the blame game with it, ask yourself what is your motive and what do you seek to achieve?”
“Heroes are not made from those who lament to lambast but from those who find the courage to lead in the needed effort to make the Party rise again. We rise together and fall together. But rise is what we must and shall,'' she added.
Source: Lead News Online
