BROKEN PROMISES: “The Political Party I Followed Didn’t Help Me” - Mzbel On Why She Stepped Away from Party Politics

Mzbel has opened up about her experience with politics, including the expectations that came with her public alignment with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the political promises she says were not fulfilled.

The Ghanaian musician and media personality has never hidden her connection to the NDC. Having grown up around the party’s political tradition, including the influence of former President Jerry John Rawlings in Jamestown, Mzbel became increasingly vocal about her political views and at various points used her public platform to support the party.

But speaking to Kafui Dey, Mzbel reflected on the experience and suggested that her involvement in partisan politics came with consequences.

She recalled using her platform to share campaign-related material for the NDC because of the attention and virality her posts generated.

According to Mzbel, some of those promises involved helping people who supported the political campaign.

“You promise that when a party comes to power you’ll find us this job, you do this, you do that,” she recalled.

She said some of those expectations were never met.

Mzbel also described the difficult position this created for her because people who had expected opportunities sometimes came to her personally.

She said that because she had publicly supported the political cause, some people assumed she had access to opportunities or resources through the party. “When people come here and I’m doing well with my business, they assume that the party is here and I’m getting opportunities,” she said.

She said she sometimes found herself giving people money because of promises she had previously made to them.

“People will come here and I have to give them money because I promised them,” she said.

Mzbel acknowledged that, at the time, she had made those promises believing they would eventually be fulfilled.

But she said the experience taught her a lesson about the consequences of becoming deeply involved in partisan politics.

She began using public platforms to talk about her disappointment and explain that she, too, had been expecting the promises to materialize.

“Every platform I will get I’ll talk about me, myself, my disappointment,” she said.

Mzbel also said she eventually realized that she was not suited to the kind of government appointment some people expected her to pursue.

She explained that her personality and preferred way of working did not align with a conventional office-based role.

“If you give me any appointment, I will not be able to execute it,” she said.

Her comments were also framed around the personal cost of political identification.

In the interview, Mzbel said that after publicly identifying with a political party, she lost fans and some performance opportunities. She also described facing criticism and threats on social media from people she associated with political divisions.

She said the experience ultimately changed her relationship with partisan politics.

“I’m not against any political party, but I don’t belong to any political party,” she said.