The General Secretary of the United Party (UP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has said that he has no intention of returning to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), insisting the party has abandoned the values that once defined it.

The former Adentan Member of Parliament was among four members whose NPP memberships were revoked after they publicly endorsed a presidential aspirant other than the party’s 2024 flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

In an adomonline.com report on October 17, 2025, Buaben Asamoa described the current NPP as ‘arrogant’ and ‘morally adrift,’ claiming it has become unrecognisable from the tradition it inherited.

“Everything they performed was overshadowed by the lack of humaneness. For me, that is the biggest problem that the party has. It got too arrogant,” he indicated.

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When asked on whether he might reconsider rejoining, Asamoa was categorical: “I don’t intend to go back to the NPP. They don’t have values. First of all, let’s examine the NPP; which NPP are we talking about now?”

He accused the party of straying from its ideological foundation and embracing influences that have diluted its identity.

“As far as I recollect, the roots of the NPP came from the CPP tradition for about eight years. The party was later managed by a chairman who had CPP roots but became NPP. The presidential candidate that took over has NDC antecedents, and his wife is from a PNC family with NDC connections,” he noted.

Buaben Asamoa argued that these shifts have eroded the NPP’s commitment to integrity, service, and sacrifice principles that he said once distinguished it from other political traditions.

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His remarks come amid efforts by Alan Kyerematen’s rebranded United Party (UP) to consolidate its base while rejecting any notion of reconciling with former NPP members seeking amnesty.

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