Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency and NPP presidential aspirant, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has opened up about the kind of treatment that he endured from his colleague MPs during the party’s presidential primaries.
In a yet-to-be-aired interview with KSM, Kennedy Agyapong underscored the independence of MPs to vote for their preferred candidate in the primaries but expressed certain hurt over the “insults” he endured from fellow MPs, especially those he considered close friends and whom he had supported financially in their parliamentary campaigns.
“It is not every MP who didn’t vote for me that I am angry at, no, everybody has a choice. But the very people who were my friends that I have helped to bring them to Parliament.”
He insisted that the betrayal, combined with the personal insults, motivated his resentment, not the Vice President’s victory.
“It’s not the betrayal, but the bad things they said about me, that is where I have the problem. So who says I’m not bitter? I am bitter, I am not because the vice president won, I am bitter because of the people that I have helped. If you are not going to vote for me, no problem, but the insults. I can’t forgive them.”
In the NPP Presidential Primaries last year, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong garnered 71,996 votes, accounting for 37.41%, while Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia secured 118,210 votes, accounting for 61.47%, making him the party’s flagbearer.
Responding to whether he will accept an offer to partner with Dr. Bawumia ahead of the December 7 elections, the outspoken MP said, “No, I wouldn’t do it. To tell you the truth, why I cannot be a vice president is that I will speak my mind and I am not going to be a mate.”