Kennedy Agyapong’s utterances at Mampong are empty, self-serving falsehoods that reflect poorly on his character.
He asserted that candidate Kufuor in 1996 had only a short three to four months to campaign, and that was why Kufuor was given a second chance in 1998.
This is false. In 1996, candidate Kufuor was elected flagbearer in April—a clear eight months before the general elections.
Everyone who was a delegate in 1998 knows Kufuor was re-elected due to his hard work in the 1996 campaign.
If the NPP considered the length of the campaign period, then Prof. Adu Boahen, who had only two months (September to October 1992) to campaign, would have been re-elected flagbearer in 1996.
Kennedy Agyapong also claims that Ghanaians say they will vote for the NPP if he, Ken, is flagbearer.
Which Ghanaians told him that?
He insinuated that the NPP lost the 2024 elections because Bawumia is a Muslim.
This insinuation is false. How come Bawumia performed better than over 50 NPP Christian parliamentary candidates, some of whom were pastors?
The Professor Oquaye committee also did not find religion to be a key factor in the NPP’s loss.
Adu Boahen lost in 1992, Kufuor in 1996, Akufo-Addo in 2008 and 2012, Professor Mills in 2000 and 2004, and John Mahama in 2016.
None of them was said to have lost because of their religion. But Bawumia’s loss, according to Ken Agyapong, is due to religion? How absurd and warped.
If NPP Christian leaders did not want a Muslim, how come they selected Bawumia in the 2024 super delegates’ contest against nine Christian contenders, including Kennedy Agyapong, and again in the main primary against five Christian contenders, including Kennedy Agyapong?
Or perhaps NPP delegates were predominantly Muslims?
Kennedy Agyapong even contradicts himself. In the same address at Mampong, he attributed the NPP’s loss to Akufo-Addo not appointing enough NPP members. Kennedy needs to resolve this confusion in his mind.
He has, in the recent past, described NPP members as foolish. Why does he want to lead a party he considers full of fools?
At Berekum, he wondered how poor people in the NPP want to speak. Does he expect poor people to elect him as their leader?
He called for unity at Mampong. But how do you unite a party by telling lies about it and maligning other party leaders?
They say, “Let Ken be Ken.” But Mampong was a poor reflection of who Kennedy Agyapong is.
Authored by:
Nana Akomea
Dr. Gideon Boako
Dennis Miracles Aboagye
Kofi Tontoh
Lawyer Kwasi Botchway
Dr. Akua Amoako
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