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Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, one of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer hopeful has explained to the NPP’s Elections Committee his showdown comment captured in a video that went viral during Saturday’s Special Delegates Conference.
The Member of Parliament for Assin North on the Central Region, in a tweet said he reacted so when his polling station agent’s life were in danger due to the injustice meted out to the agent in the North East region.
“I reacted against injustice and that saved the life of GANIU one of my polling station agents in North East. #ShowDown”.
Mr Agyapong in a meeting which lasted for over five hours with the elections committee of the NPP, justified his comments and discuss some concerns during the Saturday’s special delegates’ conference.
Addressing the press at the Party’s headquarters in support of his boss, Alhassan Abdul Ganiyu said the tantrums by Hon. Agyapong during the last Saturday special exercise saved him and two other agents whose lifes were also at risk.
“The regional chairman said they will give us some amount of money, GH¢2000 and we said no we are not there for money. He insisted that he would increase the money by GH¢1000 and we said no, we are not going to go by any amount.
“Whatever amount you are going to give to us, we are not ready for it. Then after we told him we were leaving, myself, Alan’s agent and Kwadwo Poku’s agent, we said we were leaving, he ran and locked the door…telling us to better go and sign.”
“He told us if we happen to move out he would allow the boys to attack us. And we said he should allow us to go so that the boys attack us on the way. So upon hearing the reportage, Honourable Kennedy quickly responded to what had transpired, they began to slow down the strategies and the pressure they were mounting on us. Then they all started moving out and we also had our way to move out,” he explained.
His explanation, however, contradicts that of Mr Agyapong’s campaign team who explained on Monday that the showdown comment by Mr Agyapong only meant that he was going to win the November 4 polls and should not be deemed as a threat to the president and Vice President.
Meanwhile, the Spokesperson of the NPP’s Elections Committee, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has disclosed that the committee on Tuesday held positive discussions with flagbearer aspirant, Kennedy Agyapong over his viral showdown comment during the special delegates conference.
Mr Afenyo-Markin said “We also had an opportunity to meet with one of the aspirants who made certain statements that went viral and had a positive engagement with him. And I must say that so far so good. We should be meeting again on Thursday and once we are done on Thursday, the committee should come out and make known to you its conclusion. But so far so good, all is well and we appreciate their cooperation so far.”
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Source: www.frontpageghana.com
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