The NPP flagbearer’s appeal came as delegates at Baba Yara Stadium elected new national officers and approved all 14 proposed changes to the party’s constitution.
New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has asked party members to keep the peace during the party's national executive elections and to accept whatever the ballot produces.
He made the appeal on Saturday, October 3, at the NPP's National Delegates Conference held at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi, where delegates had assembled to choose new national officers.
"Let us vote in peace and accept the results in good faith," Dr Bawumia told the gathering, as reported by MyJoyOnline.
His message was directed at the three groups who usually feel internal contests most sharply: the aspirants themselves, the delegates who cast the ballots, and the supporters who turn up to back them. He urged all of them to put the unity of the party ahead of individual ambition for the duration of the process.
All 14 amendments passed
Before voting began, delegates dealt with proposed changes to the party's constitution. All 14 motions put forward by the Constitution Amendment Committee were approved.
That outcome went against the position of Acting National Chairman Joseph Danquah Smith, who had suggested the amendments be pushed to the party's next conference. His argument was practical: there was limited time, and delegates who were also busy with the executive elections might not be able to study the proposals properly.
Delegates took a different view. The amendments were taken as the first item on the congress agenda and cleared without being deferred.
What happens next
After the constitutional business, the conference moved on to the main event: electing the national executives who will run the party machinery in its next organisational phase.
Those officers matter well beyond the Kumasi stadium. The national executive committee of a Ghanaian political party handles everything from constituency-level organisation and dispute resolution to fundraising and campaign structure. For the NPP, which lost power in the 2024 general election, the team elected at this conference will be the one working alongside Dr Bawumia as the party rebuilds.
Why it matters for Ghanaians abroad
For NPP supporters in the United States and elsewhere in the diaspora, internal party elections are often the first signal of where a party is heading. The people chosen as national officers set the tone for how external branches are organised, how fundraising is coordinated, and how disputes within the party are managed.
Dr Bawumia's call for calm also reflects a familiar concern in Ghanaian party politics, where internal contests can leave bruises that carry into national campaigns. By framing his appeal around accepting results "in good faith", the flagbearer was pressing delegates to treat the outcome as settled once the counting ends.
Results of the national executive elections were still being processed as the conference proceeded.
