Kennedy Agyapong is not the future of the NPP – he is its rot, walking and talking. His sense of entitlement is proof that in today’s NPP, misconduct is no longer punished – it is rewarded. And that is the party’s greatest shame. If the NPP were truly run on rules, Kennedy would already be referred to as “a former member” and not a front-runner.
Is the NPP Slipping Into an Ethnic Party? The answer is a damning, undeniable YES. It is not a slip, but a deliberate leap into the abyss of tribal politics, and its leadership is greasing the slide.
Some in the NPP are suddenly smearing Dr. Bawumia – a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank and Vice President of the Republic – as though he carries plagues. His only “crime” is daring to dream of leading the party. The tragedy is that those bent on destroying him cannot even measure up to his record. Match Bawumia’s competence, vision, and global credibility against Kennedy Agyapong’s insults and chaos – the gulf is staggering. Compare him to Bryan Acheampong, and the mismatch is even worse.
The NPP was never birthed as an ethnic sect. Its Danquah–Busia–Dombo tradition stood on deeper ground: free markets, multi-party democracy, freedom of speech, and rule of law. The proof was in the party’s proud history: J.A. Kufuor and Alhaji Aliu Mahama, a Christian–Muslim ticket that carried us to two full terms of stability and dignity. That was inclusivity in action, not ethnic posturing.
But the rot began when succession battles were poisoned by whispers of tribe. Alan Kyerematen is the historical architect of this division. His pattern reveals calculated betrayal: he absorbed two opposition-era losses without resigning, yet in 2008 and again in 2023 – at the party’s most vulnerable moments – he resigned in rage. This was strategic sabotage. Humiliated by Dr. Bawumia, he formed the ‘Movement for Change,’ turning his guns on the mother party. His repeated actions confirmed that merit was secondary to personal ambition, institutionalizing the ethno-sectarian warfare that is now consuming the NPP.
Kennedy Agyapong has since carried that torch of malice. His reckless claims – “Christians didn’t vote for us,” “Bawumia couldn’t deliver the Zongo votes” – are not politics. They are dog whistles, designed to divide, to delegitimize a Muslim candidate in the very party that once celebrated a Christian–Muslim ticket. Revealingly, many of Alan’s disappointed supporters who abandoned the NPP to join the Movement for Change are now back, forming the core of Kennedy’s divisive base. They preach no vision, offering only Bawumia’s candidature as their sole campaign message, thus perpetuating Alan’s failed factionalism.
Worse still is the double standard that corrodes the party from within. In 2023, Kennedy fabricated the $800 million bribery allegation – a criminal lie that stained the party and armed the NDC with a weapon. The Disciplinary Committee looked away. No summons, no sanction, no disqualification. Yet when Kwame Baffoe Abronye, a Bawumia supporter, dared to call out this filth, he was instantly hauled before the Committee. The message is simple: the louder the lie, the greater the immunity; the closer you stand to Bawumia, the swifter the punishment.
From the pulpit, Prophet Owusu Bempah continues to spew his anti-Islamic venom unchecked. On television, Hon. Asomah-Cheremeh, a Kennedy ally, dares to question Samira Bawumia’s citizenship because she is Fulani – a racist, baseless lie sanctioned by silence. This is not vision. It is cheap tribal bait, unworthy of a serious party.
And where is the leadership? The party chairman? The National Council? Where is General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong? Their silence is not neutral – it is complicit. Their inaction is cowardice in betrayal.
The NPP’s moral decay is now twofold: poisoned by tribal venom and corroded by selective justice. History will not bow to the bitterness of the bigots. It will remember the man who rose on merit, vision, and service – and it will remember the wreckers who crippled him with lies and cowardice. Kennedy Agyapong, Bryan Acheampong, and Prophet Owusu Bempah are wreckers, not builders. And Justin Kodua Frimpong and the silent elders will be judged as complicit cowards.
The NPP must choose: restore its compass of ideas, or perish as a tribal sect. Silence will not save the party. Alan has shown us the road of destabilisation. Kennedy is on the same road with hurricane speed. Are we still guessing the destination?
