Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) vice presidential candidate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has called on the people of Kumasi and the Ashanti Region to renew their commitment to strengthening the party as it prepares for its next political chapter.

He said the region, which has historically played a major role in the NPP’s political tradition, must ensure that the current generation builds on the work and sacrifices of its predecessors.

“Kumasi has done that before, and our generation must do it again,” Dr Opoku Prempeh said in a Facebook post on Monday, August 17, 2026.

He said previous generations in Kumasi sustained the political tradition through difficult periods, organising meetings, contributing resources and keeping the party’s structures alive even when the NPP was in opposition.

According to him, that history places a responsibility on the current generation to continue building the party rather than relying on past achievements.

Dr Opoku Prempeh said the Ashanti Region must strengthen its constituencies, reconnect with the grassroots, bring younger people into the party and develop a new generation of organisers.

He also called for greater room for new ideas, arguing that the strength of Kumasi and the Ashanti Region must be used to strengthen the NPP across Ghana.

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“Every generation receives both an inheritance and an assignment,” he said.

Dr Opoku Prempeh said the region must therefore ask not only what it had contributed to the NPP in the past, but what it was prepared to contribute to the party’s future under the leadership of its flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

He noted that the NPP’s political tradition had evolved through movements including the National Liberation Movement (NLM), the United Party and the Progress Party before finding renewed expression in the NPP in 1992.

He said Kumasi had remained an important part of that history, producing organisers, thinkers, activists, parliamentarians and leaders who helped sustain the tradition over the years.

Dr Opoku Prempeh cautioned, however, against viewing the Ashanti Region’s relationship with the NPP solely in terms of electoral support.

“That is why I sometimes hesitate when Kumasi and Ashanti Region are described simply as the NPP’s World Bank. It may sound like a colourful expression, but our relationship with this tradition is older and deeper than votes,” he said.

He stressed that political traditions survive when successive generations are prepared to organise, make sacrifices and build on what they inherit.

Dr Opoku Prempeh urged the current generation of NPP supporters in Kumasi and the Ashanti Region to take up that responsibility and help position the party for its next phase.

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