The National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Minister for Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare Addo, has cautioned the party against responding to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) new leadership by adopting an aggressive or confrontational style of politics.
His comments come after the NPP elected John Boadu as its new National Chairman at the party’s National Delegates Conference in Kumasi on October 3, 2026. Justin Kodua retained his position as General Secretary, while Daniel Titus Glover and Abanga Fuseini Yakubu were elected National Organiser and National Youth Organiser respectively.
Former Delta Forces member Kwadwo Fosu Boadu, popularly known as Kojo Bamba, was also elected National First Vice Chairman.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, October 4, Opare Addo urged the NDC to chart its own political course as it prepares for its national executive elections.
“The NDC must not answer the NPP by becoming the NPP,” he said, calling on the party to compete through ideas, organisation, policy and intellectual strength.
He warned against allowing political competition to turn into intimidation or violence, stressing that political toughness should not be confused with political violence.
“There is a difference between being politically tough and being politically violent. There is a difference between mobilisation and intimidation. There is a difference between political competition and political warfare,” he said.
Opare Addo said the NDC’s upcoming leadership contest should go beyond the selection of national executives and provide an opportunity for the party to determine the kind of political organisation it wants to build.
He pointed to the party’s 2022 leadership election and the mobilisation of young people through the Green Army as examples of efforts that, in his view, broadened the party’s appeal and political engagement.
He cautioned the NDC against returning to what he described as “personality, insults, factionalism and permanent confrontation.”
“The answer to aggressive politics cannot be greater aggression. The answer to political intimidation cannot be political intimidation of our own. The answer to violence must be a stronger commitment to democratic mobilisation,” he said.
Opare Addo urged the NDC to remain “fierce in competition but responsible in power”, stressing that political victory should not be treated as the ultimate objective.
