NPP Has Elected Its Team, NDC Is Next — And The Clock Is Ticking

The NPP has finished its internal elections.

The NDC has not.

And that simple difference is becoming politically interesting.

On Saturday, October 3, 2026 at Baba Yara Stadium, the New Patriotic Party has handed John Boadu the chairmanship and retained Justin Kodua Frimpong as General Secretary. Kojo Fosu Boadu, Henry Nana Boakye and Nana Akomea have taken the three Vice-Chairmanship positions. Daniel Titus-Glover is the new National Organiser, Alfred Kwadwo Thompson is Treasurer, Hawa Koomson is Women’s Organiser, Abanga Fuseini Yakubu is Youth Organiser, Mohammed Ali Suraj is Nasara Organiser and Dennis Miracles Aboagye is Communications Director.

Now look across the political aisle.

The National Democratic Congress is still operating with the national executive team elected in December 2022 at Accra Sports Stadium. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah is Chairman, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey is General Secretary, Awudu Sofo Azourka is First Vice Chairman, Dr Sherry Ayittey is Second Vice Chairman and Yakubu Abanga Alhassan is Third Vice Chairman. Joseph Yammin is National Organiser and Sammy Gyamfi is Communications Officer.

But that team is also approaching the end of its four-year mandate.

The NDC has already announced its timetable. Constituency elections are scheduled for October 24–25, regional elections for November 14–15, and the national congress for December 19, 2026.

So, politically speaking, both parties are now rearranging the furniture before the 2028 battle.

The difference is timing.

The NPP has already selected the people who will have to organise, communicate, mobilise and rebuild the party.

The NDC is about to begin the same process.

And this is where things get interesting.

The NPP’s new leadership contains a mixture of experienced party hands and people with different political histories. John Boadu himself is a former General Secretary. Justin Kodua remains in the General Secretariat. Titus-Glover returns to the national organisational machinery, while Nana B and Nana Akomea bring their own long experience in party politics and public communication.

The NDC, meanwhile, has a national executive team with considerable institutional experience. Asiedu Nketia brings his long history as a former General Secretary and now Chairman; Fiifi Kwetey has served as General Secretary since 2022; Yammin leads the organising machinery; and Sammy Gyamfi has become one of the most recognisable voices associated with the party’s communications.

So this is not a contest between “experienced” and “inexperienced.”

Both sides have experienced politicians.

The real question is what each party does with that experience.

The NPP has just gone through the painful process of choosing winners and losers. Some prominent names did not make it. Richard Ahiagbah missed the Vice-Chairmanship, Mustapha Hamid fell short by 31 votes, and Awal Mohammed finished third in the Nasara race.

That leaves John Boadu with an immediate political responsibility: unite people who campaigned against one another and turn an election machine into a working party machine.

Interestingly, Boadu himself has already identified the problem. His first post-election message was a call to “choose unity over division,” stressing that unsuccessful aspirants still have a role to play.

The NDC may face the same problem in December.

Internal elections are never just elections. They produce winners, disappointed aspirants, bruised egos and new alliances.

The NDC therefore has something to watch carefully as it begins its own national contest.

Because after December 19, it will no longer be enough to say, “We have a strong party.”

The party will have to demonstrate it.

The NPP has now put its new leadership on the field.

The NDC has roughly two and a half months before it does the same.

And when both parties finally have their new teams in place, Ghanaian politics will have moved into a different phase.

The campaign for 2028 will not be won merely on television.

It will be won in constituencies.

At polling stations.

In branch offices.