Kennedy Agyapong, the former member of parliament for Assin Central and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has urged Ghanaians to give him eight years in power, and he will break Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s records.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, the late Dr Kwame Nkrumah, in just 9 years, had done what no president has been able to match in Ghana’s political history.
Kennedy Agyapong revealed that Dr Kwame Nkrumah is his role model, and he has seen what Ghana’s first president has achieved and wants to beat those records.
Speaking on Talk Time with Kwesi Pratt on Pan African TV on August 2, 2025, Kennedy Agyapong stated, “You see, I have role models and these role models are pragmatists. When you look at the infrastructural framework of this country, nearly 60% of them were done by President Kwame Nkrumah in just 9 years of his rule.
That is from 1957 to 1966, and up to now, we have not been able to match what he did. I go around the country and I see the things he achieved, so he is my role model. If there’s a president whose record I want to beat, it’s Dr Kwame Nkrumah”.
Kennedy Agyapong further claimed he will be able to beat the late former president Kwame Nkrumah’s records if the Ghanaian’s gave him 8 years to rule the country.
“When you give me 8 years, I will beat his record,” the politician added.
Kennedy Agyapong further condemned the sloganeering approach by succeeding governments, which has not yielded any results for Ghana.
He added, “Enough is enough of the theories. We have been propounding theories that we’re going to do this, we’re going to do that, and I feel that first, we’re not on top of the game, because we’re not brilliant on the basics”.
In addition, Kennedy Agyapong, in the same interview, stated that the New Patriotic Party has a fighting chance in the 2028 elections if the party chooses him as the flagbearer.
According to Kennedy Agyapong, he is the NPP’s best bet to beat the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He emphasised that he is going to beat the NDC hands down if voted as the NPP presidential candidate.
Mr Agyapong added, “The party has a fighting chance, but it depends on the candidate they choose. If they choose Kennedy Agyapong, they have a fighting chance; I will beat NDC hands down”.
Kennedy Agyapong further gave an insight into his plans for Ghana, “Can you imagine the tourism industry? What are we going to do? Right in the middle of the sea in Dubai, they’ve created an island”.
“Ghana is the centre of the world, and we don’t have a hotel with the name Centre of the World to attract tourists. We are going to build a hotel in the sea. It is possible. I’ve seen it work elsewhere, and therefore it is going to work”.
Also, Mr Agyapong took the opportunity to explain why he chose to stay silent during the peak of last year’s campaign season and also discussed his decision to apologise to President Mahama for some of the criticisms he had previously made against him.
He added, “We(NPP) stepped on so many toes, they show some videos about Kennedy Agyapong, he said this, he is not presidential material if they are not being diabolical, and you listen carefully, it was advice I was giving them and criticising some bad deeds of the party people.
But now they use it against me. During the campaign, I have been quiet because they wrote ten sins of Kennedy Agyapong, that’s why I apologise to President Mahama because he has been very nice to me, he loves me, but because of my party, I ignore this relationship and criticise him”.
He added, “I have to be honest, I was harsh when I was criticising the NDC, my party was happy, but when I decided to contest was the time they used all the things I said against me”.
Kennedy Agyapong revealed that he has become quiet because he does not want his party to have another sin added to his ten list of sins.
He revealed, “All the things I used to defend NDC became a sin, and they circle around ten sins of Kennedy Agyapong. So now I am quite my argument is that in the Bible, they have the ten Commandments, and since Abraham’s times, they have not added one to it for it to be eleven.
So, the Ten sins of Kennedy Agyapong, I will not go and say anything for you to add number eleven or twelve, that is why I am quiet”.
Meanwhile, Kennedy Agyapong contested in the NPP’s 2024 presidential primaries, losing to the former vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Mr Agyapong finished second in the Super Delegates Conference with 14.30% of the vote, behind Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who secured 61.47% emerging the winner.
Despite his shortcomings, Kennedy Agyapong’s strong performance demonstrated considerable support within the party.
He has already officially declared his intention to contest again in the NPP flagbearer election slated for 2026.
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