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Kwabena Agyapong<\/strong><\/p>\n Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has declared his intention According to him, his decision to lead the party ahead of the 2024 general elections is out of his commitment to humanity and political ideals of the ruling party.<\/p>\n Disclosing his intention on the Point of View on Citi TV on Wednesday, Kwabena Agyapong said \u201cToday, I want to make it clear. As soon as the party allows for nominations to be filed for the flagbearer of the party, I will file.\u201d<\/p>\n He believes his long and dedicated service to the NPP will deepen his chance of leading the party in the next elections against other contestants.<\/p>\n \u201cThe party has rules and regulations, and we don\u2019t need to jump the gun and when the time comes, you will know the warmth of the youth because my message resonates with them. They see, in me, the hope of our political tradition because I have worked under all the leadership of this party.\u201d<\/p>\n According to him, \u201cI feel the pulse of the people of this country and has empathy because of what I have been through.<\/p>\n \u201cI have seen the daily trajectory of the Ghanaian people and I think that there is an opportunity to change that narrative\u201d, Kwabena Agyapong further emphasized.<\/p>\n Kwabena Agyapong who once contested in the NPP presidential race was suspended in 2015 together with the party\u2019s former National Chairman, Paul Afoko, and a former National Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe, for misconduct.<\/p>\n However, the party lifted their six years suspension later after a marathon National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.<\/p>\n The lifting of the suspension restored him as a member of the party\u2019s NEC, and the National Council according to the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n Kwabena Agyapong was found guilty of violating Article 3(d) of the party\u2019s constitution, which requires members to uphold the party\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n He was also accused of engaging in \u201cunilateral actions and activities without consultation with or seeking authorization from the NEC.\u201d<\/p>\n Kwabena Agyapong albeit his suspension, he joined campaign of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s to be maintain ahead of the 2020 polls.<\/p>\n He was optimistic of bringing his rich experience to bear to break the eight for the party in order creat the enabling environment to galvanize the needed support.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Kwabena Agyapong Kwabena Agyei Agyapong, former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has declared his intentionto contest the party\u2019s upcoming presidential primaries. According to him, his decision to lead the party ahead of the 2024 general elections is out of his commitment to humanity and political ideals of the ruling party. Disclosing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[7907,658,228,7025,88,5715],"class_list":["post-1167094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agyapong","tag-joins","tag-kwabena","tag-npp","tag-presidential","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
to contest the party\u2019s upcoming presidential primaries.<\/p>\n