Ghanaian businessman and politician Akwasi Addai Odike has delivered one of his most pointed broadsides yet against Ghana’s two dominant political parties, accusing both the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress of systematically failing the country — and alleging that some of their members secretly collaborate with foreign interests to the detriment of ordinary Ghanaians.
Speaking on Angel FM’s morning show on Monday, May 18, Odike made no attempt to soften his assessment of the political establishment that has alternated power in Ghana for decades.
At the heart of Odike’s critique is what he describes as a pattern of wilful incompetence — a cycle in which both parties assume office, repeat the same errors, and leave the population worse off than before.
“They make the same mistakes all the time. In fact the country needs a new face, looking at how the NPP and the NDC has done to Ghana” he said, arguing that neither the NPP nor the NDC has delivered the kind of transformational development Ghanaians have spent decades hoping for.
In his view, Ghana’s continued dependence on this two-party political structure has not only slowed national progress but actively deepened the hardship experienced by ordinary citizens.
His most incendiary allegation, however, went further than policy failure. Odike claimed that certain politicians within both major parties maintain covert relationships with foreign actors that ultimately work against Ghana’s interests.
“In fact, some of them even connive with the whites to dupe us,” he stated bluntly — a charge that cuts to what he sees as the most corrosive dimension of the country’s political dysfunction: a leadership class whose loyalties, he insists, do not lie with the people who elect them.
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Beyond the criticism, Odike used the platform to make an explicit appeal to Ghanaian voters. He argued that meaningful national development cannot occur within the existing political architecture, and urged citizens to reassess the partisan allegiances that have long kept the NPP-NDC duopoly entrenched.
Real change, in his telling, will only come when Ghanaians are willing to extend their trust and their votes to alternative political movements and leaders carrying genuinely fresh ideas — voices outside the cycle he believes has failed the country.
It is a message Odike has returned to consistently over the years, having positioned himself as one of the more outspoken critics of both major parties across successive administrations.
Corruption, mismanagement, and the subordination of public interest to partisan advantage are charges he has levelled at the NPP and NDC alike — and Monday’s interview made clear he sees little reason to temper that position.