The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi believes Kennedy Agyapong is not someone suitable enough to lead the NPP as flagbearer in the 2024 elections.[ads2]
The Assin Central MP is one of the candidates vying to lead the NPP as flagbearer with Alan Kyerematen, Owusu Akoto Afriyie and the current Vice President of the republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia all in contention.
But Sammy Gyamfi believes non of the candidates including Kennedy Agyapong can retain power for the NPP in forthcoming general elections.[ads3]
“The truth of the matter is that he is equally guilty. If Bawumia scores F, he will score an E because he was a member of the Economic Management Team for 6 years which has delivered the most abysmal record since the inception of this fourth republic”, he said on TV3.
“Kennedy Agyapong; is he the same man who called for the mass murder of Ewes and Ga’s and the man who brandished the photograph of Ahmed Hussein-Suale an investigative anticorruption journalist on television and called for people to attack him and do him war for reward. Is he the same man who now wants to be president? The man who once said there are no wise men in the NPP? Is he the one they want to present as their candidate?”
He argues that Alan Kyerematen has nothing to show for as a Minister for Trade and Industry over six years. “What was the growth rate of the manufacturing sector we handed to him and what is the growth rate now? It was growing at 7.9% in 2016 when we gave it to him and the growth rate he left was 4.5%. There is a sharp monumental decline and if it is about Dr. Bawumia, don’t go far” the added…[ads4]
