Alex Kwaku Tetteh, the founder and president of the Centre for International Trade and Education Ghana (CITEG), has broken his silence on why he ditched Kennedy Agyapong, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful.
The former staunch supporter of Kennedy Agyapong highlighted that he promised to protect him regardless of any controversy, but later abandoned him over a personal opinion.
According to Alex Kwaku Tetteh, Kennedy Agyapong was displeased with him after he petitioned the police to arrest a party member.
Speaking in an interview on Neat FM shared on social media, Alex Kwaku Tetteh stated, “Kennedy questioned me on why I took such action against a party member. If I have done something and you disown me, why should I follow you anymore?” he said in an interview on Neat FM shared on social media.
You have 22 children and you’re protecting them. I also have a family, so I can’t risk my life. He promised me protection and failed. I can’t support him because he could sit back and watch people kill me if I get into trouble”. Tetteh lamented.
Meanwhile, Kennedy Agyapong is contesting for the NPP flagbearer position after he was defeated by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Kennedy Agyapong has told the party delegates to try him for the 2028 election.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, if he fails to deliver as a flagbearer and subsequently president, the delegates can remove him after four years and try someone else..
Speaking to party delegates in the Western North Region, Kennedy Agyapong stated, “If contracts were given to our contractors, would we have been standing there when NDC was distributing money, and would we not be doing the same? Please try me, and let’s see. After four years, if I don’t deliver, you can remove me and try another person; if I do well, we continue to build the country and the party.”
“If we had resourced our contractors and made them money, we would not be complaining that NDC was sharing money while we sat and watched,” he said.
Kennedy Agyapong further added, “We need to build the party, and we can only build the party if we resource the party people. We don’t resource them. Someone can say we are not here because of the party.
Someone’s agency, since he left the NDC, has filled over 12 vacancies, and you are sitting here jobless. These same people are coming to you; please don’t sell yourself cheap”.
The NPP aspirant further revealed that the most disgraceful thing was that all five contestants in the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership paid an extra four million cedis after paying for the filing fees.
He asserted that the party is broke just eight months after leaving office.
“What’s even disgraceful now is that all the aspirants are paying four million for development fees. I took my form for a hundred thousand and filed for five hundred thousand. I was told that there was a deadline, so I had to give them four million”, Mr Agyapong lamented.
In a separate campaign promise, the former Assin Central MP noted that the Bawumia camp alludes to the fact that President John Mahama lost the 2016 election with 1 million votes, and it took him eight years to come back, so they can also come to power.
However, Kennedy Agyapong quizzed that if President Mahama lost with a vote difference of 1 million, and it took him 8 years, and Bawumia lost the 2024 election by 1.7 million votes, how long will it take Bawumia to close the gap and win power for the NPP?
Speaking in a short video shared by EDHUB on social media, Kennedy Agyapong quizzed, “You have gone national and lost by a 1.7 million-vote deficit. The last time I heard someone saying aka 9 p3.
Mahama lost with a vote of 1 million; it took him eight years, and someone else also lost by 1.7 million. If 1 million is equal to 8 years, then 1.7 million is equal to X. Find X”.
He further reiterated, “His own post is saying it, Mahama lost and came back after eight years, ok, good, so if you are using that analogy, Mahama lost with a 1 million vote deficit, which sent him home, and he used eight years to close the gap.
You lost by 1.7 million votes. How many years will it take to close the gap?” Mr Agyapong quizzed.
Meanwhile, the NPP’s Presidential Elections Committee has confirmed that five aspirants have completed and submitted their nomination forms.
The five include Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, Hon. Ken Ohene Agyapong, Hon. Dr. Bryan Acheampong, H.E. Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and Hon. Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum
Also, the NPP will be holding their internal elections on Saturday, January 31, 2026, to select a flagbearer for the 2028 general elections.
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