Inside Today's NPP Meeting: Rules set, no excuses left and no proxy votes coming back

If anyone walked into today’s NPP Presidential Elections Committee meeting hoping for surprises, they left disappointed. The Party leadership, chaired by Hon. Joe Osei Wusu, made it clear: the 31 January 2026 presidential primaries will be clean, transparent, and free from the usual backdoor manoeuvres some camps quietly depend on.

All five aspirants were accounted for, three in person, two by representation. And for the avoidance of doubt, every single one of them received the official voter register. No one can claim they didn’t know the numbers or didn’t have the data. The playing field is the same; the difference will now be the strength of the candidate, not the tricks around the system.

The Committee reaffirmed something that has unsettled certain strategists for weeks: there will be no proxy voting. Not today, not in January. After all the petitions and behind-the-scenes pressure, the answer is still the same. If you want to vote, show up. If your campaign relies on “delegates who exist only on paper,” this is where the problem starts—not with the rules.

The Electoral Commission will run the elections. The Ghana Police Service will handle security. No private militia fantasies. No “special arrangements.” No creative interpretations. Just the rules, as they are.

Another major confirmation was the restoration of voting rights to previously suspended party officers. Their amnesty stands, and they are back in the system, something that naturally strengthens those with real grassroots loyalty, not those who only remember the base during elections.

Today’s meeting was not just administrative; it was a message. The party is removing every excuse and every loophole. January 31 will expose the real strength of each campaign, not the narratives online or the manufactured confidence some teams try to project.

When the dust settles, the results will reveal one thing: who actually has delegates, and who only claims to.