Reports gathered suggested some NPP presidential aspirants are at risk of disqualification over failure to pay GHC 4 million development fees by the September 5 deadline.
It will be recalled, Kennedy Agyapong last week blew the alarm that NPP aspirants were made to pay GHC 4 million development fees.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, it is a disgraceful thing 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.
Speaking to party delegates in the Western North Region, Kennedy Agyapong stated, “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”.
Kennedy Agyapong further beg the NPP delegates to try him if he fails to deliver as a flagbearer and subsequently president, the delegates can remove him after four years and try someone else..
Mr Agyapong added, “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 continued, “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 2026 primaries are heating up with the main front-runners for the NPP’s flagbearer position, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, former Assin Central MP Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, former Minister for Agriculture Bryan Acheampong, former Minister for Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, and Kwabena Agyei Agyepong.
The NPP’s Presidential Elections Committee 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.
However, reports circulating suggest some members of the five risk being disqualified over failure to pay GHC 4 million development fees.
The NPP will be holding their internal elections on Saturday, January 31, 2026, to select a flagbearer for the 2028 general elections.
Additionally, a new poll released by Global Info Analytics on August 21, 2025, shows the former Vice President and NPP presidential candidate for the 2024 Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is the leading candidate ahead of the party’s primaries in January 2026.
The Global Info Analytics shows Dr Mahamudu Bawumia running away with a commanding 52% lead, with his closest contender, Kennedy Agyapong, the former Assin Central MP, with 17%.
Dr Bryan Acheampong polled 3%, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the former Education Minister, polled 1%.
Kwabena Agyapong, former General Secretary, Boakye Agyarko, and Addai Nimo all polling less than 1%.
However, 10% of delegates remain undecided, with 9% declining to disclose their choice.
According to the Global Info Analytics, the poll surveyed 2,656 NPP delegates, with 2,560 completing all responses across 263 of the 276 constituencies.
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