Kennedy Agyapong the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central has quizzed why the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wants to conduct presidential primaries when they do not know what caused the 2024 election defeat.
The flagbearer hopeful asserted that the NPP is jumping too quickly with their early primaries on January 31, 2026.
Kennedy Agyapong is quoted by GHONE to have stated, “ Why do you jump to conduct presidential primaries when we still don’t know what caused our 2024 election defeat?”
The NPP 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, and former Minister for Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum.
Godfred A. Bokpin, Professor of Finance and Economist at the University of Ghana has also waded into the New Patriotic Party (NPP) early primaries.
According to Professor Bokpin, there are certain suspicions the NPP’s early primaries are being conducted to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
He asserted that the primaries are being held in January next year to prevent Dr Bawumia’s popularity from declining.
Professor Bokpin is quoted by JOY News to have stated, “There is a certain suspicion that this is being done to the advantage of Dr Bawumia so as to prevent a decline in his popularity”.
Meanwhile, Justin Frimpong Kodua has rejected claims the party’s presidential primaries are skewed to favour the former vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV Justin Kodua detailed, “I will be very surprised for anyone to think that an election that is yet to be conducted will favour a particular candidate.”
“If you have monitored our electoral history even from 1992, 1996 to 2000, at every election — from national through to polling stations — about 70%, sometimes even 80%, of current executives retain their positions,” he explained.
He added, “The fact that you may even start from polling station to national or national to polling station does not make it skewed towards a particular person. There are current executives who will still continue to be executives”.
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Why conduct presidential primaries when we[NPP] still don’t know what caused our 2024 election defeat?… – Kennedy Agyapong#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork#GHOneTV #NewsAlert pic.twitter.com/hveD1cDNhn
— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) June 21, 2025
