Kennedy Agyapong, a candidate for the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) flagbearer position in Ghana, claims that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has offered seven Ashanti Regional MPs the vice presidential position.
On September 24, 2023, Mr. Agyapong made the assertion during a radio appearance with US-based Kings Radio.
He claimed that if Dr. Bawumia were elected as the party's flagbearer, the NPP would probably fall out of favor.
47 MPs have been frightened as a result of what they are doing in the Ashanti Region, all because of one vice president position. They have guaranteed 7 Ashanti regional MPs for the vice president positions, and they are pressuring everyone to get that job, according to Agyapong.
"One vice president, seventeen people are vying for the position, and because of that, they have been blinded, they know they will lose, because how can the vice president defeat Mahama?" he continued.
It is impossible based on all of his statements. However, they want us to split apart out of selfishness and greed, and I will fight against that. I won't let us split apart.
Along with three other candidates, Mr. Agyapong will run for the position of flagbearer, including Dr. Bawumia, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and Francis Addai-Nimoh.The NPP has set November 4, 2023, as the date to choose a new party leader to succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.