Senior New Patriotic Party (NPP) member and former minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has rejected suggestions that he should leave the party amid reports that its leadership is considering disciplinary action against him.
Speaking on Ekosiisen, a current affairs programme on Asempa FM, on Tuesday, 13 January 2026, Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said he would not be intimidated into resigning from a party he said he helped to build.
His comments follow reports that the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is moving to expel him after he described the current leadership structure of the NPP as “fake” in recent media interviews.
Prof Frimpong-Boateng, who served as Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, said it was the present leadership, rather than himself, that had departed from the party’s founding principles.
“I’m not leaving the party,” he said. “They should leave, because they are the fake ones.”
He also dismissed the NEC’s reported disciplinary measures, saying he would not honour any invitation to appear before a committee over his remarks.
“I will not honour any invitation from the NEC,” he said, adding that doing so would amount to a waste of his time.
The former minister has in recent weeks criticised the direction of the NPP, warning that re-electing certain leaders would be a “train wreck” and arguing that the party has lost its ideological and institutional foundations.
He said the NPP was in serious decline and could only be rebuilt if what he described as illegitimate elements within the leadership stepped aside.
“This was not how the party was in the past,” he said, calling for younger members who, in his view, genuinely believed in the party’s values to take charge of its future.
Tensions between Prof. Frimpong-Boateng and the NPP leadership have intensified since the 2024 general elections, after which the party became a minority in Parliament.
Party officials, including the General Secretary, Justin Frimpong-Kodua, have previously accused him of anti-party conduct and of publicly disparaging the party in breach of its constitution.
Supporters of Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, however, argue that his outspoken criticism—which dates back to his public report on illegal mining—reflects a broader call for internal reform as the party prepares for its presidential primary later this month.
