The New Patriotic Party's Third National Vice Chairman, Alhaji Osman Masawudu, popularly known as Chairman Buga, has broken his silence on how the party went to Akwatia for the by-election held on September 2, 2025, being 'naked'.

According to him, the party's election machinery, which was supposed to take care of all planned activities for the by-election, was in complete disarray because it was not properly coordinated, as no national officer was made to oversee any election activity.

Alhaji Buga, who made this known on Original FM, pointed accusing fingers at the hierarchy of the party, particularly General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Konduah and National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye, of leading a disorganised front to Akwatia.

He alleged that due to poor arrangements, the Acting National Chairman of the party, Danquah Smith Buttey, was unaware of the party's election plans because, about five days before the election, the General Secretary allegedly refused to answer the chairman's calls.

According to him, "The national chairman had to lodge at Adeiso because he could not get hotel accommodation at Akwatia because all the hotels were booked. Who were those who booked all the hotels?"

All other national executives who travelled to Akwatia to lend their support to the party and the candidate, in particular, became disillusioned because the party failed to have arrangements in place to take care of them.

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"Buttey told me he was not aware if the party devoted any money to be used for operations, so I spent my own money to do my own operations. When I asked Nana B about internal party security arrangements, he said all the security arrangements were given to Henry Quartey," he added.

Following this answer, he stated that he had altercations with Nana B on a particular platform because he could not understand why all security arrangements were given to Henry Quartey, especially when Quartey did not hold any national executive position.

"If I had died in Akwatia, how many national executives would have loved to drive their Land Cruiser vehicles to Tamale to attend my funeral? It would have been a great loss to the Dagombas. We went to Akwatia naked."

According to him, the inability of the party's national executives to provide clear leadership before and during the elections allegedly contributed significantly to the party's heavy defeat.

National Democratic Congress's Bernard Bediako won the election with 18,199 votes, defeating the NPP's Solomon Asumadu, who secured 15,235 votes.


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