Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin says both major political parties must accept responsibility for growing youth disillusionment, warning that young people who powered election campaigns feel abandoned.
“The big men have received their appointments. The NDC upper-middle class is being sorted out nicely,” he said.
“But the young people who did the fighting have been left with the same unemployment and hopelessness.”
He cautioned that treating youth as expendable campaign tools poses a serious threat to national stability.
“Do we not see the danger in this? When a society tells its young people that their only value is as political foot soldiers, the consequences are dire.”
Afenyo-Markin also turned scrutiny inward: “We in the NPP must engage in honest self-reflection. Our own arrogance and detachment contributed to the people’s verdict against us.”
He warned that social frustration could escalate without a bipartisan shift in governance priorities.
“When the people’s anger is unleashed, it will make no distinction between NPP and NDC. The youth do not care about party colours, they care about jobs and opportunity.”
