‘Electing Kojo Bamba is backward politics’ – Mustapha Gbande

Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has criticised the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) election of Kojo Fosu Boadu, popularly known as Kojo Bamba, as First Vice Chairman, describing the outcome as “backward politics.” Speaking on JoyNews’ Joy AM, Mr Gbande argued that electing a former leader of a pro-NPP vigilante group to a senior party position projects a mindset of violence that, in his view, Ghana has moved beyond. “To go and elect, projecting the mindset of violence, for me is backward politics. We have reserves for all of these,” he said. Mr Gbande also rejected suggestions that the NPP’s new leadership could rely on violence or other means to influence future elections.