Kennedy Agyapong, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopeful, has publicly told the Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, to step down as minority leader.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, there is internal jostling to oust Afenyo-Markin as minority leader.
He revealed that some persons within the NPP believe the Minority Leader should come from the Eastern Region or the Ashanti Region.
Kennedy Agyapong further added that he has already told the minority leader to leave the position for them.
Speaking in an interview on UTV on December 15, Kennedy Agyapong stated, “He is well-to-do, so he should leave the position for those who are fighting him”.
“Those criticising Alexander Afenyo-Markin’s leadership want positions. Some people are arguing that the Minority Leader should come from the Eastern Region or the Ashanti Region. I have told him to leave the position for them, and I have personally called him to tell him to step aside.”
“If it were in the olden days, I would have mentioned all those seeking his position’s names, but now I won’t. He can eat for the rest of his life, and it shouldn’t look like being an MP is the only way to survive,” Agyapong stated.
Also, Veteran broadcaster Kwesi Pratt has claimed there have been attempts to remove Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin from his position as Minority Leader in Parliament.
According to Kwesi Pratt, Afenyo-Markin is not sitting pretty as a minority leader in parliament.
He highlighted that Patrick Yaw Boamah confirmed this on Asempa FM’s “Ekosii Sen” programme on Monday, November 17, 2025.
In a post on X, Kwesi Pratt wrote, “There are very strong indications that the Minority leader in Parliament, the Honourable @AfenyoMarkin.
Afenyo-Markin is not sitting pretty, and there have been attempts to remove him.
In an effort to distance himself from a plot to remove Afenyo-Markin, Patrick Yaw Boamah, a respected NPP Member of Parliament, has confirmed that there were serious moves to take the Efutu MP out as Majority leader in the 9th Parliament”.
Kwesi Pratt further went on to quote Patrick Boamah’s words during the interview in his post on X.
Kwasi Pratt comments follow, Patrick Yaw Boamah, the Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, who has refuted claims that he is eyeing the minority leader position in parliament.
According to Patrick Yaw Boamah, he has been friends with Afenyo-Markin for so many years, and he has no interest in becoming the minority leader.
The Okaikwei Central lawmaker recounted how he stood by Afenyo-Markin when some of his colleagues attempted to plot a coup to remove him as minority leader for the 9th Parliament.
Speaking in an interview on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on November 17, 2025, stated, “There is nobody in Ghana’s Parliament who knows Afenyo-Markin more than I do. We’ve been friends for years, and we’re still very close. We share ideas all the time”.
“I was one of the people who defended him when some individuals tried to unseat him. We are grooming young leaders in the party, so there was no need to change him. At that point, he hadn’t even served a full year as Majority Leader before we lost the election,” he said.
Patrick Yaw Boamah added, “I’m not interested in the Minority Leader position. But that does not mean the caucus does not have other ideas because we are building a caucus as a minority and as a party to win the next general election, and we must be very strategic. What we discuss internally shouldn’t be discussed outside. It doesn’t help unity”.
When asked if he was nursing presidential ambition, Patrick Boamah did not outrightly rule it out, nor did he show keen interest. He stated, “God has His time for everything. I am qualified to run for the presidential primaries, but I believe everything must happen at the right time,” he said.
Patrick Boamah asserted that his priority is helping to reorganise and strengthen the NPP as it seeks to reposition itself to move the country forward.
“We’re working on fixing the party. We believe we have strong policies that can help the country,” he added.