Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, an aspiring presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has sharply fired back at Nana Boadi Amponim Abodade III, the Krontihene of Akyem Asuom, following his remarks labelling the NPP’s presidential candidates as ‘sankwas five’.
According to Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, the chief’s recent comments as disrespectful and unbecoming of someone occupying a traditional stool.
He emphasised that he is himself a royal, raised with discipline, respect, and proper values, qualities that, he says, contradict the chief’s attempt to label them as ‘sankwas.’
Kwabena Agyapong boldly replied to Nana Boadi Amponim Abodade III that he is not a sankwas and quizzed him if he even understands the meaning of sankwas.
Speaking on Kessben FM, Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong stated, “He is a disgrace to Chieftaincy; he does not respect, and he is disgracing his own people. I am a royal. Does he understand ‘Sankwas’ as for me sitting here, I am not Sankwas. I have been raised properly, I went to the primary school, then Mfantsipim School, I was the library prefect, then to KNUST to study Civil Engineering, and I did by post graduate abroad with distinction.
I was even the press secretary to the president, and I have worked on big projects”.
He added, “As for me, I am not sankwas, if he does not respect himself, as for us, we do. You may have your disagreement, but as an elderly person and also a Chief, to speak like that publicly.
All the things he said about Akufo-Addo during the campaign made me think he was not raised right”.
His remarks come on the back of Nana Boadi Amponim Obo-dade III fuming about the standard of individuals contesting for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer election.
According to the Akyem Krontihene, all five NPP flagbearer aspirants should be placed on one ballot to contest President John Mahama.
The Krontihene of Akyem Asuom further tagged all five NPP presidential aspirations as ‘the sankwas five’.
He added that the sankwas five cannot be compared to the NPP of Da Rocha, Victor Owusu, Kofi Busia, Prof Adu-Boahen, Peter Ala Adjetey, and J.A. Kufuor, Nana Boadi Obo-dade III.
He asserted that the NPP had significantly declined in terms of quality human resources.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, December 7, 2025, the Akyem Krontihene stated, “Look, the NPP of Da Rocha, Victor Owusu, Kofi Busia, Prof Adu-Boahen, Ala Adjetey, J.A. Kufuor – those men of value and integrity – are not what we have today.
I tell you without mincing words that the five people contesting to be flagbearers are just sankwas compared to those. I call them the Sankwas Five.”
“If President Mahama should decide to contest, this is how the scale would be: all the Sankwas Five; Dr Bawumia, Kennedy Agyapong, Dr Bryan Acheampong, Adutwum, and Kwabena Agyei, all five of them should not even go and choose one, they should be placed on one ballot paper against President Mahama. This is how the scale would be, all of them there and Mahama here” he said.
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“If he does not respect himself, we respect ourselves.”
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Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, an aspiring presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has sharply criticised Nana Boadi Amponim Abodade III, describing the chief’s recent comments as disrespectful and unbecoming… pic.twitter.com/nVsudSF5uK