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Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, the former Chief Executive of the National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP), has called on the Kennedy Agyapong team to stop labelling Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as the cause of the NPP’s defeat in the 2024 election.
According to Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, Kennedy Agyapong has always insisted that the NPP lost the 2024 election in 2022 due to the economic crisis Ghanaians faced.
He noted that if Kennedy Agyapong made those assertions, anyone who represented the NPP in the 2024 elections would have lost.
In a post via social media, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah stated, “If Hon Ken admits we lost the election in 2022, then it simply means that even if he had won the primaries, we would have still lost.”
“His People should stop blaming Dr Bawumia for our defeat then. We lost the election through our collective actions, not because of our candidate”, he added.
Kofi Ofosu Nkansah further recounted that Kennedy Agyapong cannot shirk himself from the NPP’s defeat as he was a Board Chairman of one of Ghana’s biggest state institutions.
He highlighted, “Ken supporters should stop saying their candidate wasn’t part of the Government. He was the Board Chairman of one of the biggest state institutions, Ghana Gas. His wife was also a big Board Chair.
Ofosu Nkansah noted that Mr Agyapong had more influence in the Government than 99% of NPP appointees.
He had more influence in the Government than 99% of NPP appointees, even when he wasn’t an appointee in the first term. Me that I was CEO of an agency which was like an Internet cafe (ADC) koraa wouldn’t say I wasn’t part of the Government then. Monnya saa ns3m no ka,” he added in a post shared via social media.
However, Kennedy Agyapong has refuted claims that the NDC’s victory was due to his comments.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, the suggestion that his comments were used as ads, which contributed to the NPP defeat, is not valid.
He noted that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s own pronouncements in the past and in government were used against in.
Speaking on Pan African Television, Kennedy Agyapong stated, “You saw the former Chief Justice picketing. So during my campaign, I told them that anybody in that administration lost in 2022 because Ghanaians had decided they would get rid of us, and they used that against me, that I caused their defeat. Some candidates go around and say because of him, we lost the election”.
He added, “Did I say that when the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you? The lady quoted it at the Agric Bank. Did I say that I am going to lock the dollar? It is under lock and key, and I’ve given the key to the police, whatever?
You think I am the only smartest person in the country that did not listen or hear? When they are losing their business and take a decision, now you use it against me that I caused the defeat? Today is an opportunity for me to explain this.
Look at the NDC advert, the number of adverts, what Bawumia said that they used against him and compare to the number of adverts they said I have said that. They have never been fair, but I leave it to God”.
Kennedy Agyapong added, “They’ve never been fair. I leave it to God. All the things I said were a caution to them; if they had listened to me, there wouldn’t have been this humiliating defeat ever but they didn’t listen because the whole party machinery was against Kennedy Agyapong”.
In addition, Joseph Kpemka, the former Deputy Attorney General, has admitted the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) defeat in the 2024 general elections was a tsunami.
Speaking on Channel One TV on The Point of View, Joseph Kpemka recalled, “By 10 pm, I knew that we had lost the 2024 elections on December 7.
Because if you look at the December 2016 elections, by 8 pm to 9 pm, the reports we were getting from our IT wizard, Joseph Anokye, were very clear that we were leading”,
He added, “In the same way, in 2020, by 8 pm to 9 pm, the reports we were getting online from his office indicated that we were leading. But this time around, it was very silent and sad. So, we knew by 11 pm to 12 am that things were not going well for us at all”.
“It was a tsunami, and it was a national one that hit us hard, and the circumstances that led to that are very clear and obvious, both local and international. A lot of factors played a role,” he said.
Joseph Kpemka suggested, “If elections were to be conducted today, I’m very convinced that the performance that we recorded will improve tremendously, I’m very convinced”.
Meanwhile, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in the 2024 election, according to the Electoral Commission’s official website secured secured 4,877,611 votes, representing 41.7%, with John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and winner in the 2024 elections, securing 6,591,790 votes, representing 56.42%.