Ken Agyapong, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, has boldly rejected calls from Bawumia’s camp to apologise to the former Vice President after he tagged him a ‘big liar’.
Following the backlash, a statement purportedly issued from the Ken campaign team surfaced, but Spokesperson for Team Ken, Kwasi Kwarteng, refuted claims that Ken Agyapong has issued an apology.
According to Kwasi Kwarteng, Ken has not issued any apology and still stands by his comments.
Ken Agyapong, speaking to some delegates after the NPP peace pact, was later heard echoing that he would not apologise to Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The former Assin Central MP highlighted that he would not be pressured into withdrawing his claims, adding that his comments formed part of his account of events at the Peace Pact ceremony.
Speaking to the delegates, Ken Agyapong stated, “I will not apologise. I will apologise my foot. I don’t fear anybody,”
Ken Agyapong also asserted that he was the only aspirant who identified a mistake in the NPP peace pact documents, as the other aspirants failed to read the documents, and accused fellow aspirant Bryan Acheampong of signing where he was supposed to.
“Even PhD holders couldn’t see the mistakes”, he said.
Ken’s refusal to apologies stem from his outburst to comments made by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, but he attributed them to Dr Bawumia.
According to Wontumi, Professor Adu Boahen was not retained by delegates in 1996 after contesting the 1992 election due to poor health.
Chairman Wontumi made these claims while speaking to NPP delegates in the Ashanti Region.
He noted that the claim is in a book authored by Apenten Appiah-Menka, who was an associate of Professor Adu Boahen.
Kennedy Agyapong, reacting to the statement, fired a personal attack at Dr Bawumia, calling him a liar.
Mr Agyapong stated, “I have never seen a liar like our former flagbearer before. This man is a liar for saying that Adu Boahen did not contest because he was sick, you should not vote for a liar, a man who is lying to have power”.
“Listen to the history, Adu Boahen contested in 1992, and he won but lost the general election in 1996. The former flagbearer is in Kumasi, saying Adu Boahen was sick. Kufuor contested Adu Boahen, and he beat him to become the flagbeaerr, he was fighting to go on oppose, and they did not agree.
Someone who wants to lead this country, and you are lying and distorting history, don’t vote for someone like this. He has been given a nickname that he is a liar. He is a liar, and the people will not vote for him”.
He added, “When I heard him yesterday, a presidential candidate who wants people to vote for him will look eyeball and eyeball and lie, he is a big liar for saying Adu Boahen was sick, go and check history, I am more popular in this country than him, those who know him know him as a liar that is why we lost”.
In that same vein, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the former Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for the Suame Constituency in the Ashanti Region, has quizzed Ken Agyapong following his insults directed at fellow NPP aspirant Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Speaking in an interview on Owia TV, Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Kennedy, asked Ken Agyapong, between him and Bawumia, who is a liar after mistakenly attributing the comments made by Chairman Wontumi to the former vice president and subsequently launching verbal attacks against him.
He stated, “Something that he hasn’t said, you claim he has said, and you have been insulting him. Why would you frame something on someone, accuse him wrongly and insult him on top of that?
“So, between the two of you, who is the liar? I even started the whole Adu Boahen issue,” he said.