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Claim: Several social media users are sharing a video claiming a scuffle broke out between New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of parliament ahead of the presidential primaries.
Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s checks reveal that the events in the video occurred in 2025 and are not related to events ahead of the Jan. 31, 2026, presidential primaries of the NPP.
Full Text
The NPP, in the bid to quickly reorganise after a humiliating defeat in Ghana’s 2024 election, has set Jan. 31, 2026, as the date for electing a flagbearer to regain power in 2028.
Five party members are poised to win the flagbearership with the hope of regaining power in 2028. The five include former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Dr Bryan Acheampong, Kwabena Agyapong, and Kennedy Ohene Agyapong.
Events ahead of the NPP presidential primaries have not been short of prophesies, polls, and exchange of inflammatory comments from the various potential candidates during their campaign events.
Disinformation and misinformation have not been left out. Several social media users have shared a video claiming that a scuffle broke out between various factions of NPP members of the parliament during a parliamentary session.
An X user, @Kiss_Mequikk, shared a video claiming that a scuffle broke out between factions of various presidential candidates in parliament. The video was captioned:
“Blows in Parliament. A heated confrontation broke out in Parliament today between MPs aligned with Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (DMB) and those supporting Kennedy Agyapong. It took the NDC Members of Parliament to separate them.”
“Embarrassing optics, honestly. When MPs turn Parliament into a boxing ring over internal party primaries, the real losers are the Ghanaian people. If it took the NDC to restore order, then it’s clear where the discipline has collapsed. Leadership is persuasion, not fists,” a user, @KSnetne, commented on X.
The post garnered 540 reposts, 2700 likes, and over 204,000 views on X.
On Facebook, the same video was shared by Friends of Sammy Gyamfi, with a similar narrative. The reel was captioned:
“Team Bawumia MPs and Team Kennedy MPs fight in the Parliament of Ghana. These people all should be deported to Kosovo by tomorrow afternoon.”
DUBAWA decided to investigate this claim due to its virality and potential to misinform.
Verification
To investigate this claim, DUBAWA performed an InVID We Verify keyframe analysis. A Google Image Search using the Keyframes from the analysis revealed that the video first appeared online in Dec. 2025.
The video was from parliament proceedings on Dec. 9, 2025, when the minority caucus left their seats and massed at the centre of the chamber. This was in reaction to a decision to declare the Kpandai seat vacant, which the minority deemed “unlawful and procedurally flawed.”
However, after a voice vote, the Speaker directed that proceedings should continue. In response, Minority MPs protested by chanting and attempting to disrupt the sitting. Tensions heightened when Minority members, dressed in black, moved toward the front of the chamber, prompting some Majority NDC MPs to advance as well, resulting in a tense face-off at the centre of the House.
Asempa FM also shared the video on Facebook with the same description. A Google search further showed that several media outlets, including Citi Newsroom and Asaase Radio, had reported on the incident at the time.
Further image comparison revealed that the man wearing a plain white long-sleeved shirt who was seen attempting to hit the MP for Nyheiso, Stephen Amoah, was Tanko Mustapha Amadu, the NDC Member of Parliament for Bia West. This shows that the incident was not limited to NPP MPs alone but involved both NPP and NDC MPs.
Source: Adom FM & Parliament of Ghana
Find the video of parliamentary proceedings here, as uploaded on ChannelOneTV’s YouTube page. Find the chaotic scenes from 2:09:55 to 2:32:01.
Also, the Parliament of Ghana has yet to resume sitting for the Second Session of the 9th Parliament. Parliamentary proceedings will resume on Feb. 3, 2026. This depicts that the events in the video could not have happened in 2026
Conclusion
The video portraying factions of minority MPs of the various presidential candidates’ fight ahead of the NPP’s presidential primaries is misleading. The video is from parliamentary proceedings in Dec. 2025.
