Former NPP First Vice Chairman Smith Butey says he is prepared to be sacked from the party rather than abandon his opposition to the recent constitutional amendments.
Butey said he remains firmly against the changes approved at the party’s National Delegates Conference, particularly the amendment concerning the role of the presidential candidate and the National Chairman.
Speaking on Kessben FM, he was asked whether he was willing to risk his position in the NPP by continuing to oppose the amendments.
“I am ready to be sacked because I am fighting for the right people of the party, so I don’t care about anything that they do,” he stated.
Butey also claimed that some members of the party’s leadership had approached him privately to apologise over the matter. He said, however, that he would not withdraw his opposition.
In a separate interview on October 6, 2026, Butey maintained that he did not initiate any proposal to make the NPP’s presidential candidate the leader of the party, saying he had rejected the amendment while serving in leadership.
“As a leader at the time, I nullified the amendment, and they can take it wherever they want.
“Even they had to make us aware because we don’t know if they had added something to the motion or not… Also, I didn’t bring any amendment during the delegate conference, so I don’t have any idea about it,” he said.
He also said he filed a court motion challenging the amendment.
“I don’t want to talk about the court date, but it’s in my car, and you can come home, and I would show it to you,” he added.
The NPP said before its National Delegates Conference in Kumasi that it had approved 14 constitutional amendments aimed at strengthening the party’s structures, leadership, administration and electoral preparedness.
Among the changes, Articles 10(3), 10(3)(2) and 10(4)(2) were amended to give the presidential candidate a leadership role in the campaign structure for presidential elections.
