Former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, clashed with New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe Abronye, at Berekum in the Bono Region during Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s national thank-you tour on Monday.
The former Vice President’s tour reached the Bono Region on Monday, where Abronye is Regional Chairman, and the meeting was nearly ruined following a verbal clash between Agyapong and Abronye.
As regional chairman, Abronye was the first to speak, and in his welcome address, he fired salvos that Kennedy Agyapong later interpreted as being targeted at him.
The Bono Regional Chairman questioned the sincerity of persons preaching unity in the NPP, when, in his view, the same people had earlier sown seeds of discord within the party with their utterances, which, he said, the NDC used to campaign against the NPP during the elections, quoting the Prof Mike Ocquaye post election fact-finding committee.
Abronye also rejected a proposal by Kennedy Agyapong that the party should grant amnesty to all former members who had left the party as well as those on suspension.
Abronye was of the view that granting such amnesty to people who had been punished by the party for misconduct would be a clear endorsement and promotion of indiscipline.
This party needs discipline and I do not support such a proposal, he said.
Abronye said that those pushing for such amnesty and unity had, in the lead up to the election, attacked the party publicly and contributed to its defeat.
Kennedy Agyapong was obviously not happy, and he fired his own salvos at Abronye when he got to his turn to speak.
He angrily warned that he could not be intimidated, and responded to Abronye with a mixture of insinuations and direct attacks.
Some people talk as if they own the party, but they don’t. If we are seeking real men in the party, they don’t measure up. Their financial contribution is minimal. They go around begging yet they have mouths to talk. Even you poor people want to speak your mind, how much more rich men like us. Who born dog! an angry Kennedy Agyapong said.
Still responding, Kennedy Agyapong also attacked Abronye’s record as Regional Chairman of the party, pointing out that the NPP had only one parliamentary seat in the region.
Earlier, Abronye had defended his record as Regional Chairman, as well as the records of his constituency executives, insisting that although the region voted massively for the NPP in 2016 and 2020, the NPP government neglected the region, as several calls for key projects like roads to be prioritised fell on deaf ears from 2017 to 2024.
