NPP Is Not Losing Any Region

Don’t get me wrong: Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is still a significant member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). But it is, of course, equally true that the Assin-Central Member of Parliament has done more that is undermining of the credibility and fortunes of the Akufo-Addo Administration than can be made of his patently vacuous and presumptuous assertion that newly confirmed Independent Special Prosecutor Mr. Martin Amidu stands to become the proverbial Achilles Heels of the NPP heading into Election 2020. For starters, Mr. Agyapong does not appear to recognize any clear-cut distinction between his personal business interests and the far greater and significant interests and fortunes of the New Patriotic Party.

Which was why in the wake of being allegedly denied a contractual deal – by his own public confession – by the Akufo-Addo Flagstaff House, the Oman-Fm Radio proprietor had the scandalous temerity to publicly suggest and allege that the New Patriotic Party may very well have won the 2016 general election by foul means. Then shortly thereafter, Mr. Agyapong also called the integrity of the entire Presidential Staff of Nana Addo DankwaAkufo-Addo into question. He and Mr. Kwame Asare Obeng – alias A-Plus – the Hiplife artist, would nearly bring the newly sworn Akufo-Addo Administration to the brink of a crisis and cause an investigation to be conducted into the operations of the Presidency. And yet, Mr. Agyapong has the chutzpah to call Mr. Amidu an arrogant personality who needs to be promptly reined in by the President!

Sometimes I wonder who this pathologically self-obsessed party mercenary thinks he is – God or Jesus?! I have absolutely no doubt in my mind, whatsoever, that short of his obviously self-interested loyalty for Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr. Agyapong has absolutely no dispassionate and/or patriotic interest in the fortunes of the New Patriotic Party short of what he can personally get out of the latter, by way of lucrative contractual deals. And, of course, I admire the man for making absolutely no secret of his mercenary intentions, thinly veiled with a veneer of deftly calculated charitable pretense for the ill-fortunes of the poor and destitute in Ghanaian society. Mr. Agyapong is obviouslya career politician but not a professional one; and so I am not the least bit bothered by his rather grossly misguided and ill-informed assertion that the New Patriotic Party may be fast losing its hitherto groundswell of support in the Central Region (See “NPP Losing Central Region – Kennedy Agyapong” Peacefmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 2/14/18).

The fact of the matter is that it is perfectly normal for the political support pendulum to swing up and down from month to month, and even day to day. But on the whole, anybody who sincerely and firmly believes that, indeed, the Akufo-Administration has done far less for the Central Region, in its barely one year in office, than the Mills-Mahama-led National Democratic Congress, must be strung high up on some narcotic contrabands. The fact of the matter is that compared to the other traditional strongholds of the NPP, until the 2016 general election, voters in the Central Region had not invested remarkably much in the fortunes of the New Patriotic Party. And so I am rather flabbergasted that native party operatives like the Assin-Central MP would be bickering pettily over the lack of adequate major cabinet allocations to the region’s natives, fully bearing in mind that the most deserving of such appointments, including Messrs. Agyapong and John Boadu, are widely known to have flatly turned down such offers. Could Mr. Agyapong, thus, be aptly described as a fleering hypocrite?

I also don’t know what Mr. Agyapong means by his assertion that the Central Regional Minister, Mr. Kwamena Duncan, was, somehow, a good regional party secretary while the NPP languished on the gray margins of the political opposition, but has, somehow, become a centrifugal force as a ruling party operative. Maybe it is the so-called Swing-Voters of the Central Region who ought to be looking up themselves in the mirror. It is also ironic for a political narcissist like the Assin-Central MP to be accusing Mr. Duncan and the region’s Municipal and District Chief Executives of grossly misreading the pulse of the people.

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