{"id":19606,"date":"2026-01-12T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19606\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:55:07","slug":"tensions-rise-ahead-of-npp-primaries-as-bryan-camp-makes-wild-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19606\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions rise ahead of NPP primaries as Bryan camp makes wild allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Tensions-rise-ahead-of-NPP-primaries-as-Bryan-camp-makes-wild-allegations-2016971?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71894597.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Acheampong, MP for Abetifi\" title=\"Bryan Acheampong, MP for Abetifi\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/> <\/a>Bryan Acheampong, MP for Abetifi<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Tensions within the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Patriotic Party<\/a> (NPP) have intensified just weeks to the party\u2019s presidential primaries, following threats by the campaign team of Abetifi MP and flagbearer aspirant, Dr <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryan Acheampong<\/a>, in the Northern Region to disrupt the internal elections over allegations of delegate coercion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bryan camp, some regional party executives in the Northern Region are allegedly pressuring delegates to support a particular candidate, a development they describe as a serious breach of internal party democracy and fairness. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign team insists that such actions, if left unchecked, could undermine the credibility and integrity of the upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The Pulse on JoyNews, representatives of the Bryan campaign warned that the situation could escalate if party leadership fails to intervene promptly.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that they argue delegates must be allowed to exercise their franchise freely, without intimidation, inducement, or directives from regional power brokers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NPP has always prided itself on being a democratic party. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attempt by party executives to compel delegates to vote in a particular direction runs contrary to our values and risks eroding confidence in the entire process,\u201d a source close to the Bryan campaign was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Acheampong, MP for Abetifi Tensions within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have intensified just weeks to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-19606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-ghana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}