Using Official Party Platforms To Promote Bawumia Undermines Unity – Ken Agyapong Campaign

The campaign team of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong, has accused the party’s leadership of bias, alleging that official party resources are being used to promote former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

In a statement, Kwasi Kwarteng, spokesperson for the Agyapong campaign, condemned the NPP’s decision to stream only Dr. Bawumia’s nomination filing on its official social media platforms.

“The use of the official party’s social media handles to stream only DMB’s nomination filing is a betrayal of the very unity our national leadership claims to preach,” the statement read.

According to the campaign, this action is not an isolated occurrence but part of a wider, deliberate effort to give Dr. Bawumia an unfair advantage, similar to what it claims happened during the party’s previous internal contest.

The statement further blamed such practices for the NPP’s recent electoral setbacks, pointing to Dr. Bawumia’s record as a key factor.

“Under his watch, we recorded the worst results in our party’s history: a 31% drop in national votes, a 16% decline in northern votes, a 33% fall in southern votes, and virtually no support from the Zongo communities,” Kwarteng stated.

Kwarteng cautioned that, at a time when the NPP should be focusing on reconciliation and rebuilding ahead of the 2024 elections, sidelining other aspirants risks alienating the grassroots and deepening internal divisions.

“Leadership continues to impose the very candidate under whom we suffered these losses, shamelessly projecting him as the ‘establishment choice’… If this continues, leadership should not be surprised when other candidates begin to take their destiny into their own hands,” the statement warned.

The campaign stressed that unity cannot be achieved through manipulation and warned that the party risks losing the trust of its base if fairness is not upheld.

“The grassroots would not be forced into silence while the future of the party is mortgaged for one individual. Never!” the statement concluded.

The NPP has yet to officially respond to the allegations.

Meanwhile, Dr. Bawumia has urged unity among aspirants in the primaries, calling on them to focus on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) rather than attacking one another.