Kennedy Agyapong, a flagbearer candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has a campaign manager named Mr. Kwame Owusu. He has acknowledged that his team has resorted to providing cash incentives to some delegates in advance of the November 4 presidential primaries.
Mr. Owusu clarified that their choice to call delegates was a reaction to the enormous quantities of money that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s entourage was giving to delegates.
“He has given some inducements which are far too high and people look at it and they are very dissatisfied as to things that we have not been able to pay, such as NABCO. Recently we were even owing soo much money as regards to school feeding and the rest…so when people see the amount of money that is moving that they claim they don’t have, people become suspicious,”Mr. Owus told Hanson Agyemang of Citi News.
Mr. Owusu said when asked directly if Mr. Agyapong is also influencing candidates.
“Oh yes, Oh yes, we are only saying that if we are inducing, we should do it in such a way that people don’t see it as buying them. That they are being encouraged to do that.”
He added, “But I am saying that this is the game, NDC, NPP given the method by which our candidates are selected it has given rise to these kinds of things.”
Mr. Owusu also expressed his doubts about Dr. Bawumia’s fitness to lead Ghana, pointing to his lackluster work during the previous six years.
He claimed that a large number of MPs and well-known party members back Dr. Bawumia’s candidacy because they are afraid of the possible changes Mr. Agyapong, if selected as the party’s flagbearer, would bring about.
