Founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has criticised the party’s internal democratic processes, claiming that former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia would not have qualified to become former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate if the party had strictly adhered to its own membership requirements. Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe argued that the NPP has drifted from the democratic principles on which it was founded. “If our party had been a party that I will call a democratic party, Bawumia would never have been even the running mate to Akufo-Addo,” he said. Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe warned that political parties, particularly the NPP, must be careful not to undermine democratic values through their internal decisions. Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe questioned how the party’s leadership could describe the court’s decision as politically motivated less than 24 hours after the judgment.