Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a candidate for the NPP’s flagbearer position, has praised Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s impact on the party and Ghana in general.
The outspoken politician claimed that it was impossible to overstate the Vice President’s influence on the NPP in recent years.
Kennedy Agyapong made it clear in a speech to party members in the Upper West Region that his recent remarks about a strategist weren’t directed at Dr. Bawumia.
“The truth hurts… so you are the victim, and I am educating you, and you think I’m hitting back? You see, they are not being fair. I did not hit the Vice President but I hit one MP because he said, ‘We don’t want somebody who will come and say that I have done this and that for the party and Ghana, but we want a strategist,’”Agyapong told Home Radio in the Upper West Region.
“I have the utmost respect for Vice President Bawumia and his strategic thinking,” Agyapong, who is also aspiring to become the party’s presidential candidate said. “He has demonstrated time and again his ability to effectively strategise for the benefit of the party and the country as a whole.”
In the interview, Agyapong did not give the lawmaker’s name but did state that the MP served in Parliament shouting” Ghana was not going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) but “within two hours the country was there.”
“The people that I have helped, made them who they are today, they are the ones that are against me. I bought cars, gave them money, campaigned for them to win their seats, but now, they’re my number one enemies. But I just look at them, and I say ‘Lord, forgive them because of their stomach’”, Agyapong said.
Mr. Agyapong made a remark to delegates in the Bono Region that was purportedly directed at Dr. Bawumia’s campaign.
“You call yourself a strategist but when we were taking over power the dollar was GHC4, today US$1 is GHC12 and yet you call yourself a strategist,” Agyapong told NPP delegates.
