Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has warned delegates of the party not to vote for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
According to the Assin Central MP, the party will go into opposition if Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is elected as the flagbearer.
The vociferous lawmaker argued that Dr. Bawumia cannot beat the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama in the general elections.
Agyapong, who made these remarks in an interview on Kessben TV, on Monday, September 18, 2023, added that the vice president has lost credibility because the very statement he made when the NPP was in opposition has come to haunt him.
“Whether you like it or not, if you vote for Bawumia, you can’t beat Mahama… ‘If your fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you,’ was I the person who made this statement?
“… the man (Dr. Bawumia) went out there and said, ‘when your fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you’. Has it changed? If $1 to GH¢4, you said the fundamentals are weak, then $1 to GH¢12, the fundamentals would be what,” he said in Twi.
The MP, who is one of Dr Bawumia’s contenders for the NPP flagbearership position, said that he is doing no wrong by criticizing the performance of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo/Dr Bawumia-led government because he and other businessmen in the country have lost huge amounts of money due to the bad performance of the economy.
“When I say these things, people say I am controversial… When I lost some of my money, did someone tell me that I’m an NPP man, so my money should be saved? If I have lost money, am I the only businessman who has lost money?” he quizzed.
The presidential hopeful further said that he would beat former President John Dramani Mahama, the candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) because he has “no baggage” like the former president and Dr. Bawumia.
